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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.
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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Swaffham Prior C Of E School, High Street, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, CB5
Received 4 Aug 2000Land Part Of Former Wisbech Canal (Adj High Road), Elm
Received 30 Jan 1985Land Adj The Court House, Bedford Street, Wisbech
Received 1 Mar 1982Meadow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit (Xiv), Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 5 Feb 1974Land North Of Broadway (4), Broadway, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 29 Apr 1953Adjacent South Of, South Of And South West Of Boots Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Manea Road, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 18 Oct 1958Trinity School, School Lane, Hartford, PE29 1XX
Received 26 Jun 2015Land At, Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5
Received 11 Jul 2007Manea CP School, Station Road, Manea, March, PE15
Received 6 Oct 1983Cottenham C.P. School, Lambs Lane
Received 14 Mar 1996Westwood Junior School, Maple Grove, March, PE158JT
Received 16 Mar 1981The Country Centre, Howes Close
Received 20 Apr 1989Ramsey County Junior School, Station Road, Ramsey, Huntingdon, PE171JA
Received 4 Jul 1995Land At, Downham Foeffees CP School, Main Street, Little Downham, Ely, CB6
Received 4 Dec 2002Householders Waste Site, Huntingdon Street, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 1 Feb 2000Land At, Spring Meadow Infant School, High Barns, Ely, CB7
Received 16 Feb 2006Impington Village College, New Road
Received 22 Jun 1993Cambourne Village College, Sheepfold Lane, Cambourne, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6FR
Received 9 Dec 2019Land North Of Barton Road East Of Gadds Lane And West Of, The Still, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 27 Apr 2022Thomas Eaton Primary School, Church Street, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 26 Apr 1989Manea Community Primary School , Station Road, Manea, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0HA
Received 14 Aug 2024Land South West Of, Hill Farm, Clunch Pit Lane, Reach, Burwell, Cambridgeshire
Received 11 Sept 1988St Andrews Ce Junior School, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, CB4
Received 19 Apr 1979Chalk Pit, South West Of, Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1
Received 29 Oct 1974Records 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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