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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.
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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent East Of Trout Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Earith Fen Drove, Earith, St. Ives
Received 5 Nov 1959Maple Grove Infant School & Community Group, Maple Grove, March, PE15 8JT
Received 19 Nov 2015Northstowe Secondary College, Stirling Road, Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1DJ
Received 20 Jan 2020Wilburton Primary School, Carpond Lane, Wilburton, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3RJ
Received 26 Sept 1997Library, School Lane, Little Downham, Ely, CB6
Received 3 Mar 1987Whitemoor Yard, 1 Hundred Road, March, PE15 8QW
Received 19 Aug 2009Land To The South West Of Little Paxton Sand And Gravel Pit, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 12 Jul 1961Huntingdon Primary School, Ambury Road, Huntingdon, PE29 1AD
Received 10 Sept 2015The Library , Ascham Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2BD
Received 4 Feb 2022South East Of, Block Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (2), Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 18 Jul 2002Longsands Comprehensive School, St. Neots
Received 21 Jun 1976Bottisham Primary School, Beechwood Avenue, Bottisham, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9BE
Received 3 Apr 2024Alconbury C Of E School, School Lane, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE175EQ
Received 5 Nov 1979Land 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 21 Oct 2021Kingsfield Primary School , Burnsfield Estate, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6ET
Received 29 Nov 2022Land At Teversham Ce (Aided) School, Church Road, Teversham, Church Road, Teversham, Cambridge, CB1
Received 13 Aug 2001Cambridge College Of Further Education, Howard Mallett Site, New Street, Cambridge, CB1
Received 15 Feb 1988Little Paxton Quarry, Little Paxton, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 6ET
Received 18 Nov 2020Land At, Dernford Farm, Cambridge Road, Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Received 27 Jul 2010Land At, Great Paxton Primary School, Mount Pleasant, Great Paxton, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 5 Feb 2004Eynesbury C Of E Primary School, Eynesbury
Received 15 Dec 1999Gull Drove Sand And Gravel Pit, Dismantled March/Spalding Railway Line, Gull Drove, Guyhirn, Wisbech, PE13
Received 14 Sept 1992Milton Pits, Milton
Received 6 Apr 1981Bradley Fen, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 25 Jul 2001Records 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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