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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Witcham Meadlands Quarry, Block Fen, Mepal/Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2AY
Received 16 Aug 2012Sawston Village College
Received 4 Nov 1974Grafham Water Residential Centre, West Perry
Received 6 Sept 1990Buckden Quarry, Brampton Road, Buckden
Received 30 Jul 1997Former Railway Land, Chatteris Road
Received 22 Jan 1986Adjacent South Of Knobbs Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Fen Lane, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 13 Sept 1963Murrow County Primary School, Murrow Bank, Parson Drove, Wisbech, PE134HD
Received 16 Jun 1994Milton C Of E School, Butt Lane
Received 29 Sept 1988Land At, Lattersey Field, Benwick Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 7 Aug 2006Hill Farm, Litlington
Received 7 May 1981New Road Primary School, New Road, Whittlesey, PE7 1SZ
Received 8 Mar 2019Cambridge Pet Crematorium, A505, Thriplow, Cambridge
Received 16 May 1989Gravel Working Within Fen Drayton Sand And Gravel Pit (I), Holywell Ferry Road, Fen Drayton
Received 13 Mar 1985St Neots Transfer Station, Marston Road, Eynesbury, PE19 2HB
Received 17 May 2010Fen Drayton Primary School, Cootes Lane, Fen Drayton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 19 Jul 2001Huntingdonshire College, California Road
Received 23 Nov 1989Land At, Impington Village College, New Road, Impington, Cambridge, CB4
Received 22 Sept 2004Land At, Potton Road, Gamlingay, Sandy, SG19
Received 9 Sept 2004St. Annes C Of E Primary School, London Road, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE29 2WW
Received 15 Jun 2018Sutton Primary School, The Brook, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2PU
Received 5 Feb 2021Green Hedges School, Stapleford
Received 8 Dec 1981Land At Rexam Harcoster, Windover Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 4 Jun 1998Marleigh Primary School, Marleigh Avenue, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8YF
Received 9 Mar 2022Adjacent East Of Eldernell Sand And Gravel Pit, Eldernell Lane, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 26 Apr 1966Records 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.
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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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