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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land At, Earith Primary School, School Road, Earith, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 22 Jan 2003Ramsey Abbey School, Hollow Lane, Ramsey
Received 4 Aug 1997Land Adjacent Dismantled Railway Line, Guyhirn Landfill Site, Gull Drove, Guyhirn, Wisbech, PE13
Received 15 Mar 1999City Of Ely Community College, Downham Road, Ely, CB6 2SH
Received 14 Mar 1979Land At, Grafham Water Centre, Ridgeway, Perry, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 27 Apr 2006PT.Osp 0752, Cambridge Road, Milton
Received 5 Nov 1979Whittlesey
Received 31 Aug 1971Manea CP School, Station Road, Manea, March, PE15
Received 23 Sept 1977Rheola Home For The Elderly, Broad Leas
Received 1 Dec 1986Os 6562 PT.Os 5875.3268, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 1 May 1967Former Railway Sidings, Station Road, Fordham, Cambridgeshire
Received 18 Dec 1996Workshop Within Little Paxton Sand And Gravel Pit, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 27 Jul 1989Land At The Shade/Kingfisher Drive Junction, Soham, Cambridgeshire
Received 28 Nov 2013Northstowe Education Campus , Land Adjacent To Stirling Road, Northstowe New Town, CB24 1BN
Received 5 Mar 2025Rectory Farm Sand And Gravel Pit (V), Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 10 Aug 1982Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, PE16 6UU
Received 7 Feb 2019Land At, Ramnoth Junior School, Ramnoth Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 8 Oct 2001Land At, Shirley Infant School, Green End Road, Cambridge, CB4
Received 28 Jun 2007Castle Camps Primary School, Church Lane, Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, CB21 4TH
Received 31 Mar 2009Land East Of Orton Brickworks, Orton Malborne, Peterborough, PE2
Received 17 Jul 1953Larkfield Adult Training Centre, High Barns, Ely, CB7 4SB
Received 7 Nov 1980Spaldwick County Primary School, Ferriman Road, Spaldwick, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE18
Received 23 Nov 1999Histon And Impington Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9JA
Received 31 Jan 2020Girton Glebe Primary School, Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0PN
Received 21 Dec 2016Records 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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