Understanding planning · 13 min read
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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
A boundary map is not available for this authority yet. Use council conservation-area and Article 4 guidance above where linked.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham CB25
Received 15 Aug 2008Land To The West Of Mere Way, Houghton And Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Received 27 Jun 2011Land To The South Of Ely Between Angel Drove & Stuntney Causeway
Received 4 May 2018The Vines Inter-Church Primary School, The Vines, Cambourne, CB23
Received 3 Apr 2008Part Os Field 3553 Off Manor Gardens, Buckden
Received 7 Jul 1983Dimmock's Cote And Adjacent Land Limestone Quarry, Dimmock's Cote Road, Wicken, Ely, CB7
Received 19 Jul 1979Froghall Farm, The Hollow, Ramsey
Received 19 May 1976Kingsland Farm, 243 March Road, Coates
Received 10 May 1996Parkside Community College, Parkside, Cambridge, CB1 1EH
Received 3 Aug 1994Ernulf Community School, Eynesbury, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE192SH
Received 7 Feb 1975Acre Fen, First Furlong Drove, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6TA
Received 21 May 2013Adj To Church Farm Cottages, St Mary's Road, Ramsey St Mary
Received 14 Jun 1978Land At Chesterton Sidings, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Received 3 Jul 2013Land At, The Amber Centre, 36, Mayfield Road, Hartford, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 21 Dec 2004Ready-Mix Concrete Plant At Cow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit, Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 3 Nov 1980Offord CP School, Off, High Street, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 14 Apr 1994Alderman Jacobs School, Drybread Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 5 Mar 1987Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6UU
Received 1 Apr 2009A142 Stuntney
Received 1 Mar 1983Land At Bourn Plant, Bourn Airefield, A428, Bourn
Received 29 Aug 2000Clay Farm Primary School, Land To The East Of Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, And West Of Hobson Book, Cambridge
Received 28 Nov 2016Westwood Junior School, Maple Grove, March, PE158JT
Received 21 Sept 1976Stretham Primary School, Wood Lane, Stretham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3JN
Received 14 Jun 2022The Acres, B663, Bythorn
Received 10 Aug 1995Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage