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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Duxford Community School, St John's Street, Duxford
Received 19 Apr 1984Buckden Sand And Gravel Pit (Vi), Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 3 Dec 1963Steeple Morden C.E. School, 7 Hay Street
Received 9 Jul 1996Sawtry Infant And Junior Schools, Middlefield Road, Sawtry, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 21 Jan 1986Former Hereward Comprehensive School, Robingoodfellows Lane, March, PE15
Received 5 Aug 1980Cavalry Primary School, Cavalry Drive, March, PE15 9EQ
Received 23 Apr 2014Meldreth Primary School, High Street, Meldreth
Received 22 May 1985Land North Of Ashwell And Morden Station, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 8 Dec 2000Great Staughton C P School, Causeway, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE194BA
Received 24 Jul 1980Northstowe New Town, Ne Longstanton
Received 9 Dec 2014Land Near Chatteris Engineering Works, Fenland Way, Chatteris, PE16
Received 18 Jan 1994Cottenham Skips Ltd, 254A Histon Road, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire CB24 8UG
Received 14 Apr 2011Peckover Primary School, Leverington Road, Wisbech, PE131PJ
Received 21 Nov 1988Crosshall School, Eaton Socon
Received 27 Mar 1980Land To Rear Of Beechwood House, Cattle Dyke, Gorefield, Wisbech, PE13
Received 31 May 2000Townley Primary School, Crown Road, Christchurch, Cambridgeshire, PE14 9NA
Received 20 May 2024Nationwide Recycling Ltd, Barnwell Junction, Swann Road, Cambridge, CB5 8JZ
Received 9 Dec 2010Park Lane GM Primary School, Park Lane, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1JB
Received 11 Jun 1981Comberton Village College, West Street, Comberton, CB23 7DU
Received 18 Oct 2021Cambridgeshire College Of Arts And Technology, Collier Road, Cambridge, CB1
Received 29 Apr 1980Meldreth Primary School , High Street, Meldreth, Cambridgeshire, SG8 6LA
Received 16 Sept 2022Nene County Infants School, Norwich Road, Wisbech, PE132AP
Received 3 May 2001Ameycespa (East) Ltd, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9PQ
Received 28 Jun 2013The Netherhall School, Queen Ediths Way, Cambridge, CB1 8NN
Received 3 Jun 1998Records 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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