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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fowlmere C.P. School, The Butts
Received 18 Jun 1990Priory Junior & Infant School, Galfrid Road, Cambridge, CB5 8ND
Received 4 Feb 1986Thomas Eaton Primary School, Church Street, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 5 Jan 1999Clarkson Infants School , Trafford Road, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 2ES
Received 24 Apr 2024City Of Ely Community College, Downham Road, Ely, CB6 2SH
Received 18 Apr 1995Land At, John Paxton Junior School, Link Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB2
Received 20 Jan 2006Sutton Primary School, The Brook, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2PU
Received 5 Feb 2021Soham County Junior School, Townsend, Soham, Ely, CB7
Received 24 Sept 1982Land Adjacent To, 1-3, Sewage Works Houses, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0AP
Received 21 Jul 2017Wilburton Primary School, Carpond Lane, Wilburton, Ely, CB6 3RJ
Received 27 Mar 2019Queens School, Corporation Road, Wisbech, PE132SE
Received 20 Dec 1983Land At, Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, PE16
Received 31 Mar 2004Milton School, Humphries Way, Milton, Cambridge, CB24 6DL
Received 13 Mar 2019Land To The South Of The Existing A605 (Peterborough Rd) From A Point 480M West To 435M East Of The Current Kings Dyke Level Crossing.
Received 30 Aug 2023Northstowe Education Campus, Land Adjacent To Stirling Road, Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1BN
Received 4 Dec 20206 Marshall Road
Received 13 May 1988Adjacent South And West Of London Brick Company, Kings Delph, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 28 Apr 1974Land To The North West Of Bearscroft Farm, Bearscroft Lane, Godmanchester
Received 13 Sept 2016Stibbington Centre For Environmental Education, Great North Road, Stibbington, Peterborough, PE8
Received 12 Dec 1995Swaffham Bulbeck Primary School, High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridge, CB5 0LX
Received 30 Jun 1974Huntingdon Technical College, California Road
Received 19 May 1989Townley Primary School, Crown Road, Christchurch, Wisbech, PE14 9NA
Received 11 Nov 2016Harston & Newton County Primary School, Harston
Received 14 Sept 1984To The North Of Little Paxton Sand And Gravel Pit, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 19 Mar 1964Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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