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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Cambridgeshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Sept 1943 to 3 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land At, New England Stud, Swaffham Heath Road, Swaffham Bulbeck, Burwell
Received 6 Aug 2002Land At Bradley Fen Pit, Funthams Lane, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
Received 24 Dec 2009Warboys Landfill Site, Puddock Hill, Warboys, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2TX
Received 21 Nov 20151 Fitzwilliam Road, Cambridge, CB2 2BN
Received 2 Mar 1993Land At, Unit 10, Willow Road, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 23 Nov 2004Central Library, 7 Lion Yard, Cambridge CB2 3QD
Received 11 Mar 2009Envar Composting Limited, The Heath, Woodhurst, Huntingdon, PE28 3BS
Received 29 Dec 2017Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, PE166UU
Received 30 Nov 1977Betty's Nose Farm, Forty Foot Bank, Ramsey
Received 29 Apr 1976Pepys Road School, Pepys Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE192EW
Received 21 Jun 1990Histon And Impington Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9JA
Received 27 Feb 2023Land North Of American Cemetery, Cambridge Road, Madingley, Cambridge, CB3
Received 11 Oct 1976Cambridgeshire Farm College
Received 17 Sept 1986Green Hedges Special School, Bar Lane
Received 11 Aug 1995Dimmock's Cote And Adjacent Land Limestone Quarry, Dimmock's Cote Road, Wicken, Ely, CB7
Received 11 Dec 1979A1198 Papworth Everard Bypass, Cambridgeshire, To The West Of Papworth Everard Village, From The B1040 Kisby`s Hut Junction To Crow`s Nest Farm
Received 17 Feb 2003Newmarket Road Park And Ride Site, Newmarket Road, Fenditton, Cambridge
Received 22 Jul 1999Bottisham CP School, Beechwood Avenue, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9BE
Received 7 Oct 1996Soham Village College, Sand Street, Soham, Ely, CB7 5AA
Received 21 Jun 1991Land At Fulbourn Infants School, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn
Received 28 Mar 2001Land At Brampton Village Primary And Junior School, The Green, Brampton
Received 10 Sept 2007Hinchingbrooke School, Brampton Road, Huntingdon, PE186BN
Received 22 Jun 1982Woodhatch Farm, Thrapston Road, Ellington, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Received 16 Sept 2010Library, New Road, Chatteris, PE16
Received 31 Dec 1993Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Cambridgeshire County Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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