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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Colville Junior School, Colville Road, Cherry Hinton
Received 22 Sept 1975Long Road Sixth Form College, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2
Received 23 Jan 1984Dockseys Farm, St. Ives Road
Received 15 May 1989Buckden Ce School, School Lane, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 21 Jan 1975Land West Of Village, Oldhurst
Received 25 Aug 1982Householders Waste Recycling Centre, Gravel Pit Hill, Thriplow, Royston, SG8
Received 7 Apr 1994Sawtry Infant And Junior Schools, Middlefield Road, Sawtry, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 6 Dec 1978The Cherry Hinton Village Centre, Colville Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Received 20 Apr 2011Copart, New Bridge Lane, Wisbech, PE14 0SE
Received 22 May 2014East Of Woolpack Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Cambridge Road, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 30 Jul 1992Cherry Hinton Community School, Fulbourn Old Drift
Received 14 May 1979Doddington, March
Received 23 Jul 1979Great Gidding C Of E Primary School, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 5NX
Received 10 Mar 2022Land At. Hundreds Farm, Langwood Fen, Chatteris, PE16
Received 19 Mar 2002Whittlesey Water Recycling Centre, Aliwal Road, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, PE7 2LA
Received 13 Jan 2018Land Adj Manor Road/The Thorpe, Hemingford Grey
Received 15 Jun 1984Alderman Jacobs School, Drybread Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 26 Jul 1988Land At Whytefield Road, Ramsey
Received 22 Feb 1983Cement Works, Chapel Hill, Barrington, Cambridge, CB3
Received 17 May 1982Upware Field Studies Centre, Upware, Ely, CB7
Received 3 Apr 1987Land To The North West Of Orton Brickworks, Orton Malborne, Peterborough, PE2
Received 6 Sept 1966Mobile Classrooms At Elm C Of E School, Main Road, Elm, Wisbech, PE14
Received 13 Sept 2000B.A,.S. Ltd. Waste Transfer Station, Gidding Road, Sawtry, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 2 Feb 2000Brampton West Sand And Gravel Pit (III), Thrapston Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 6 Jul 1973Records 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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