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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land To The East Of Rackham C.E. Primary School, Main Street, Witchford, Ely, CB6
Received 23 Nov 2000Morden Grange Chalk Pit, North East Of Ashwell Station, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 8 Feb 1983Land At The Shade/Kingfisher Drive Junction, Soham, Cambridgeshire
Received 14 Aug 2012Houghton Hall, St Ives Road, Houghton, Cambridgeshire, PE28
Received 6 Dec 2007Alderman Jacobs School, Drybread Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 3 Aug 1993Land At Cambridge Childrens Centre, Abbey Meadows Primary School Site, Galfrid Road, Cambridge, CB5
Received 7 Jun 2005Melbourn Primary School, Mortlock Street, Melbourn, Royston, SG8 6DB
Received 12 Apr 2011Extension To Babraham Park And Ride, Babraham Road, Cambridge, CB2
Received 10 Oct 2001Spicers Mill Sand And Gravel Pit (II), Shelford Road, Whittlesford, Cambridge, CB2
Received 5 Sept 1977Excavation Of Chalk Fill, London Road, Great Wilbraham, Cambridge, CB1
Received 15 Apr 1992Land Between GT Shelford & Addenbrooke's Hospital At Red Cross Lane, Cambridge, CB2
Received 24 Jan 2005Cambourne Village College, Sheepfold Lane, Cambourne, CB23 6FR
Received 22 Jun 2021Castle Camps C Of E School, Bartlow Road
Received 13 Oct 1986Land West Of, Mill Road, Fen Drayton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 15 Jan 1981North West Of Barleycroft Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Needingworth Road, Bluntisham, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 27 Apr 1995North Fen Sutton Gault (II), The Gault, Sutton, Ely, CB6
Received 27 Jan 1997Waterbech Sand And Gravel Pit, Ely Road, Cottenham, Cambridge
Received 28 Oct 1991Land Adjacent To: Ashley House, Conquest Drove, Farcet, Peterborough, PE7 3DH
Received 8 Nov 2012Land At Buxhall Farm, Glebe Way, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9XP
Received 14 Nov 2018Unit 1, 35 Benwick Road, Whittlesey, PE7 2HD
Received 5 Jul 2019Land Adjoining, Tylers Yard And Brookhampton Street, Ickleton, Saffron Walden, CB10
Received 3 May 2005Great Staughton C P School, Causeway, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE194BA
Received 18 Mar 1976Cambridge Pet Crematorium, A505, Thriplow, Cambridge
Received 28 May 1996Benwick Primary School, High Street, Benwick, March, PE15 0XA
Received 29 Apr 2024Records 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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