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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Brampton Quarry, Brampton
Received 8 Dec 1975Land North Of Melbourne Avenue Joining Hundred Road, March
Received 2 Jun 2003Cambridgeshire County Council Civic Hub, Ermine Street, Alconbury Weald, PE28 4YE
Received 11 Jun 2021Olivemede Old People's Home, Hawthorn Road, Yaxley
Received 5 Nov 1979Saxon Works, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1PD
Received 11 Jun 2025Land At, Pitt Farm, Great North Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 2 Dec 2002Land Between Ditton Walk And Fen Road, Across Ditton Meadows And The River Cam, Cambridge
Received 6 Dec 2017Witchford Village College, Manor Road, Witchford, Ely, CB6 2JA
Received 20 Jul 1975Hartford County Junior & Infant School, Mayfield Road, Huntingdon, PE187UL
Received 30 Mar 1998North East Of Sand And Gravel Pit East Of Kennett Village, Dane Hill Road, Kennett, Newmarket, CB8
Received 7 Sept 1973Land At, Rackham Ce (C) Primary School, Main Street, Witchford, Ely, CB6
Received 7 Jun 2002Waterbeach Community Primary School, High Street, Waterbeach, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JU
Received 26 Jul 2019Thomas Eaton Primary School, Church Street, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 6 Mar 2009Queen Edith County Primary School, Godwin Way, Cambridge, CB1 8QP
Received 10 Jan 1984School Land Fronting Townsend
Received 4 Dec 1991Harston And Newton Primary School, High Street, Harston, Cambridgeshire, CB22 7PX
Received 16 Apr 2012Land At St Augustines Infants School, Cherry Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 20 Sept 2000Land At Thriplow Recycling Centre, Gravel Pit Hill, Thriplow, Royston, SG8
Received 9 Apr 1996Land Adjacent To, Mayer Newman (East Anglia) Ltd, 111 Fordham Road, Snailwell, Newmarket, CB8
Received 22 Jan 1986The Former Saxon Brickworks Site, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1PJ
Received 30 Jul 2012Westfield Junior School, Ramsey Road, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 5RG
Received 15 Jun 2020Isleham C Of E School, Malting Lane, Isleham, Ely, CB7 5RZ
Received 20 Jan 1989Unit B & Unit 1B Westons Yard , Ramsey Road, Pondersbridge, PE26 2TW
Received 23 Jun 2025Land At, High Street, Foxton, Cambridge, CB2
Received 8 Mar 2002Records 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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