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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Highways Depot, Queens Street, March, PE15
Received 12 May 1983New Saxon Works, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1PD
Received 21 Dec 2022Rheola Home For The Elderly, Broad Leas
Received 27 Jul 1988Land To The South Of Ely Between Angel Drove & Stuntney Causeway
Received 29 Nov 2016Car Dyke Farm, Ely Road, Landbeach
Received 17 Jul 1978Land At Junction Of Huntingdon St & Russell St, St. Neots
Received 2 Jan 1981Land At Hill House Farm, Kingston Road, Great Eversden, CB3
Received 10 Mar 2008Bassingbourn County Primary School, Brook Road
Received 7 Dec 1977Land At, Langwood Farm West, Langwood Hill Drove, Chatteris, PE16
Received 13 Dec 2004Borrow Pit At Quy Water Bridge, Newmarket Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridge, CB5
Received 21 Jun 1976Earith Primary School, School Road, Earith, Huntingdon, PE173QB
Received 7 Jan 1997Fowlmere School, The Butts, Fowlmere
Received 3 Jul 1980Symonds House Home For The Elderly, Symonds Lane, Linton
Received 28 Feb 1986Plantation Quarry, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, Cambridgeshire, SG8 0NX
Received 26 Feb 2026Town Hall, Market Place, March
Received 11 Nov 1974Land To The South Of The A605 (Peterborough Road) From A Point 480 Metres West To 435 Metres East Of The Kings Dyke Level Crossing
Received 20 Feb 2019Land At Sawtry Playing Fields, Sawtry
Received 16 Jul 1997Stukeley Meadows Primary School, Wertheim Way, Huntingdon, PE186UH
Received 9 Mar 1994Chear Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (XX), Ely Road, Cottenham, Cambridge
Received 12 Jan 1978Nene County Infants School, Norwich Road, Wisbech, PE132AP
Received 18 Jun 1998Robert Arkenstall Primary School, Camping Close, Haddenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3UA
Received 25 Feb 2020Land Between Coldham's Lane And River Cam, Through Coldham's Common, Barnwell Junction Pastures And Ditton Meadows Cambridge
Received 24 Aug 2018Drummer Street Bus Station
Received 2 Feb 1988Medworth Efw Chp Facility, Algores Way, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 14 Apr 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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