Understanding planning · 13 min read
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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Littleport Community Primary School, Parsons Lane, Littleport, Ely, CB6 1JT
Received 15 Jun 2009Uttons Drove Sewage Treatment Works, Located Off Anderson Road, Swavesey
Received 22 Jul 2013Land Adjacent To A11 Trunk Road Improvement Abington Park Farm, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB1
Received 13 Jun 1994Cambridge Regional College, Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8EG
Received 7 Jan 1986Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant Relocation, Horningsea Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
Received 23 May 2025Long Road Sixth Form College, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2
Received 6 Jan 1992Newnham Croft Primary School, Chedworth Street, Cambridge, CB3 9JF
Received 11 Jul 1983Great Abington C.P. School, High Street
Received 9 Dec 1988Melbourn Village College, The Moor
Received 19 Aug 1993Land At, Meldreth Primary School, High Street, Meldreth, Royston, SG8
Received 14 Mar 2006Grafham Water Residential Centre
Received 22 Jun 1992Spaldwick Bypass
Received 24 Oct 1979Highways Depot, Queens Street, March, PE15
Received 22 Apr 1993Hundred Road Clay Pit, Hundred Road, March, PE15
Received 5 Jul 1984Land At Thongsley County Junior & Infant School, Buttsgrove Way, Huntingdon
Received 9 Nov 1994St Augustines C Of E School, Cherry Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 22 Jun 1989Coopers Farm, Land 500 Metres Southeast Of Langwood Fen Farm, Langwood Fen Drove, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6XF
Received 10 Sept 2021Clay Farm Primary School, Land East Of Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, West Of Hobson Brook, Addenbrooke's Road, Cambridge
Received 2 May 2018County Primary School, The Fold, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 2BP
Received 13 Aug 1987Not Known
Received 9 May 1984Burrowmoor Junior & Infant School, Burrowmoor Road, March, PE15 9RP
Received 6 Nov 1991Crosshall Infants And Junior Schools, Eaton Socon
Received 25 Nov 1985A10 Borrow Pit, Grange Farm, Cambridge Road, Stretham, Ely, CB6
Received 27 May 1975Land At Streetly Hall Farm , Streetly End , West Wickham , Cambridgeshire, CB21 4RP
Received 14 Oct 2025Records 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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