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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land 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 26 Jan 2018Parkfield Caravan Site, Sandbank
Received 13 Dec 1989Red Lodge Waste Transfer/Recycling Station, The Carrops, Red Lodge
Received 23 Dec 2010Sawtry Junior And Infant School, Middlefield Road, Sawtry, PE28 5SH
Received 30 Aug 2018Land At, Ernulf Community College, Barford Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 12 Sept 2003Land At, Histon Nursery School, New School Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB4
Received 16 Jan 2003Part Of School Playing Field, Sefton Avenue, Wisbech
Received 2 Nov 1983Land east of Bannold Drove and North of Bannold Road, Waterbeach
Received 8 Jun 2026Cambridge Pet Crematorium, A505, Thriplow, Cambridge
Received 17 Dec 1998St Peters School, St Peters Road, Huntingdon
Received 23 Sept 1975Hildersham
Received 19 Sept 1948Land At, Fen Drayton County Primary School, Cootes Lane, Fen Drayton
Received 28 Feb 2007Block Fen Quarry, Block Fen Drove, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire CB6 2AY
Received 17 May 2019Land At, Wheatfields Primary School, Nene Way, St Ives
Received 14 Feb 2007Ditton Fields Nursery School, Wadloes Road, Cambridge, CB5 8PG
Received 10 May 1996Plantation Quarry, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, Cambridgeshire, SG8 0NX
Received 29 Feb 2024Land At, Woodhatch Farm, Thrapston Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 3 Jun 2005Westfield School, Ramsey Road, St Ives, PE27 5RG
Received 29 Jun 2009Land Adj 24, Boleness Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 18 Dec 20001 Queen Street, Yaxley, Peterborough
Received 4 Jul 1975Huntingdon Technical College, California Road, Huntingdon
Received 14 Feb 1979Manea Community Primary School, Station Road, Manea, PE15 0HA
Received 16 Apr 2024Kingsfield Primary School, Burnsfield Estate, Chatteris, PE16 6ET
Received 23 Apr 2016Spring Common School, American Lane, Huntingdon, PE187TY
Received 8 Nov 1979Records 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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