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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crosshall School, Great North Road, Eaton Socon
Received 27 Apr 1987Spring Meadow Infants School, High Barns, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4RB
Received 8 Feb 2010The Fold, Coates, Whittlesey
Received 23 Aug 1982Hardwick Community Primary School, Limes Road, Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, CB23 7QR
Received 7 Apr 2011Land At Whitemoor Yard, Hundred Road, March
Received 3 Mar 2008Veolia Es (UK) Limited, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0DN
Received 26 Mar 2019Unit 1, 35, Benwick Road Industrial Estate, Whittlesey, PE7 2HD
Received 13 Aug 2016Parsonage Close First School, Burwell
Received 31 May 1985Barrington C Of E School, 12, Haslingfield Road, Barrington, Cambridge, CB22 7RG
Received 4 Apr 2018Land At, Neale Wade Community College, Barkers Lane, March, PE15
Received 14 Feb 2003Land At, Benwick Primary School, High Street, Benwick, March, PE15
Received 18 May 2005Land Adj The Court House, Bedford Street, Wisbech
Received 13 May 1985Former Mepal Airfield, A142, Mepal, Sutton
Received 3 Jun 1996Willow Walk Farm, Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2AA
Received 15 Sept 201029, Oldfield Lane, Wisbech, PE13 2RJ
Received 26 Nov 2013Central Library, Lion Yard
Received 31 May 1989Huntingdon Junior School, Ambury Road
Received 17 Oct 1989County Primary School, The Fold, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 2BP
Received 29 Jun 1981Alderman Jacobs School, Drybread Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 24 Nov 1987Cambridge Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Waterbeach
Received 31 Jan 2008County Primary School, The Fold, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 2BP
Received 26 Apr 1994Land Adj. Great Abington C.P. School
Received 11 Jul 1995Highfield Special Education Needs School, Downham Road, Ely, CB6 1BD
Received 9 Sept 2014Whittlesey Youth Centre, 15 Scaldgate, Whittlesey
Received 13 Jan 1977Records 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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