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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Elm C Of E Junior School, Main Road, Elm, Wisbech, PE140AG
Received 26 Oct 1983Land At The Shade/Kingfisher Drive Junction, Soham, Cambridgeshire
Received 22 Jul 2015Land Adj. 16 Bridge Street
Received 15 Mar 1988New Farm, Cow Lane
Received 24 Jul 1989Land To Rear Of 47 March Road, Coates, Whittlesey, PE7 2BX
Received 7 Jul 2020Land Adj. 41 Russell Street
Received 7 Dec 1987Impington Village College, New Road
Received 1 Sept 1994Waterbeach CP School, High Street, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB5 9JU
Received 12 May 2000Swavesey Village College, Gibraltar Lane
Received 10 Jan 1991Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge
Received 16 Jun 1981Histon And Impington Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9JA
Received 31 Oct 2019Land To Rear Of Beechwood House, Cattle Dyke, Gorefield, Wisbech, PE13
Received 8 Jun 1999Fulbourn Primary School, School Lane, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5BH
Received 9 Apr 2013Wisbech Education Campus , Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 4TH
Received 12 Sept 2023Alconbury C Of E School, School Lane, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE175EQ
Received 24 Oct 1985Building At, The Old Cold Store, Stretham Road, Wilburton
Received 12 Dec 2006Farmyard Adj. St.Johns Church, Waterbeach
Received 15 Aug 1984Little Paxton CP School, Gordon Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE194NG
Received 4 Jul 1996Hills Road Sixth Form College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2PE
Received 4 Jun 1992St Matthews Primary School, 19 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2DL
Received 9 May 2011Land At, Fen Drayton Primary School, Cootes Lane, Fen Drayton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 5 Sept 2003Cambridgeshire Farm College
Received 10 Jun 1987The Netherhall School, Queen Ediths Way, Cambridge, CB1 8NN
Received 9 May 1988Land For Burials At Back Of Cambridge Pet Crematorium, A505, Thriplow, Cambridge
Received 22 Mar 1991Records 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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