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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Eastfield School, Pig Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE174QE
Received 18 Jul 1983The Whittlesey Central Brick Co. Ltd, Funthams Lane, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 31 Mar 1965North East Of Woolpack Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Cambridge Road, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 13 Jun 1952Witchford Village College, Manor Road, Witchford, Ely, CB6 2JA
Received 27 Mar 1989Coton C Of E Community Primary School, Whitwell Way, Coton, Cambridge, CB23 7PW
Received 23 Jan 2014The Grove Aph, Carter Street, Fordham
Received 20 Nov 1984Land At, Over Primary School, Long Furlong, Over, Cambridge, CB4
Received 2 Jun 20052 Warboys Airfield Industrial Estate, Warboys, Huntingdon, PE28 2YA
Received 4 Apr 2013Car Park At Needhams Old School Playground, Back Hill, Ely, CB7
Received 8 Dec 1977Plasgran, Manea Road, Wimblington, March, PE15 0PE
Received 20 Jun 2019Unit 5, Gaul Farm, Gaul Road, March, Cambridgeshire PE15 0YY
Received 23 Mar 2012Sir Harry Smith Community College, Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1XB
Received 5 Aug 2003Land At Eternit UK Limited, Whaddon Road, Meldreth, Royston, SG8
Received 19 Feb 2007Land At, Old Orchard Farm, Bluntisham Heath Road, Bluntisham, PE28 3LH
Received 26 Sept 2011Brington C Of E School, Church Lane, Brington, Huntingdon, PE180PU
Received 12 Apr 1989Meadow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit (I), Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 7 Sept 1943Land At, Newbridge Lane, Wisbech, PE14
Received 8 Mar 2002City Of Ely Community College, Downham Road, Ely, CB6 2SH
Received 20 Jul 1976Histon & Impington Inf. School, New School Road
Received 2 Jun 1987Land At Histon & Impington Infant School, New School Road, Histon
Received 25 Oct 2002Land At Goodwin Farm, 1 Heath Road, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, CB25 0LA
Received 9 Jun 2021Romsey Junior School, Coleridge Road, Cambridge, CB1 3PH
Received 31 Jan 1978Land To The North Of Block Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (1), Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 5 Feb 1980Land At, Great Gidding C E (C) School, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 4 Feb 2003Records 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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