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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Burnsfield Infs & King Edward Jun School, Burnsfield Estate, Chatteris, PE16
Received 11 May 1993Materials Recycling Facility, Station Road, Warboys, Cambridgeshire
Received 11 Mar 2021Barnabas Oley C Of E Primary School, Little Lane, Great Gransden, Sandy, SG19
Received 11 May 1999Sir Harry Smith Community College , Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1XB
Received 13 Dec 2023Land At Thongsley County Junior & Infant School, Buttsgrove Way, Huntingdon
Received 14 Jun 1995Cambridge Regional College, Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8EG
Received 26 Jul 1983Gorefield Primary School, High Road, Gorefield, Wisbech, PE134NB
Received 21 May 1998Land North Of Ashwell And Morden Station, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 8 Dec 2000Waterbeach Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Waterbeach, CB25 9PG
Received 11 Jan 2017Waterbeach Community Primary School, High Street, Waterbeach, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JU
Received 5 Jul 2018Ashwell & Morden Station Goods Yard, Station Road, Odsey, SG7 5RT
Received 11 Sept 2014Fordham Primary School, Isleham Road, Fordham, Ely, CB7 5NL
Received 24 Aug 1993Godmanchester Landfill, Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 2NB
Received 21 May 2015Stukeley Meadows Primary School, Wertheim Way, Huntingdon, PE186UH
Received 2 Jun 1995Cambourne Temporary School, Land In Eastgate, Cambourne, Cambridgeshire
Received 20 Nov 2008Foster [Stanmoor Hall] Farm
Received 18 Jul 1991North Of Cow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit, Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 30 Aug 1983Land Adj. Former Primary School, Margett Street
Received 28 Jun 1989Colne Fen Sand And Gravel Pit, Chatteris Road, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 2 Apr 1963Land At Great Abington Primary Scool, High Street, Great Abington
Received 10 Apr 2007St Helens County Primary School, Colne Road, Bluntisham
Received 6 Sept 1983Land Off, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB5
Received 30 Nov 200510A Princes Street, Huntingdon
Received 1 Apr 1990Sawtry Infant And Junior Schools, Middlefield Road, Sawtry, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 29 Jun 1989Records 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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