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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Girton Glebe Primary School, Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0PN
Received 26 May 2015Pepys Road School, Pepys Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE192EW
Received 14 Aug 1996Land Off Green End, New Farm, Landbeach
Received 6 Aug 2012Land At, Over Sewage Treatment Works, Fen End, Over, CB4
Received 24 Oct 2007Huntingdon County Junior School, Arbury Road, Huntingdon
Received 9 May 2000Robert Arkenstall Primary School, Camping Close, Haddenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3UA
Received 10 Apr 1980Soham Sewage Treatment Works, Broad Piece, Soham, Cambs
Received 11 Feb 2013Land Between Coldham's Lane And River Cam, Through Coldham's Common, Barnwell Junction Pastures And Ditton Meadows, Cambridge
Received 12 Feb 2021Chatteris
Received 15 Nov 1983Little Paxton CP School, Gordon Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE194NG
Received 9 Aug 1977Land At, Scrapyard, Fordham Road, Snailwell, Newmarket, CB8
Received 24 Jul 1986Bottisham CP School, Beechwood Avenue, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9BE
Received 28 Sept 1995Land At, Melbourn Village College, The Moor, Melbourn, Royston, SG8
Received 30 Oct 2001Downham Feoffees School, Main Street, Little Downham, Ely, CB6 2ST
Received 26 Oct 1992Elm Road CP School, Elm Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 24 Jul 1989County Primary School, The Fold, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 2BP
Received 20 Aug 1987Manor Community College, Arbury Road, Cambridge, CB4 2JF
Received 29 Nov 1996Westmoor Drove, Littleport, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 1RP
Received 27 Oct 2020Whitehall Farm, Cambridge Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 29 Dec 1993Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9DL
Received 19 Nov 1993Land At, Soham Village College, Sand Street, Soham, Ely, CB7
Received 17 Jun 2004Cambridgeshire College Of Arts And Technology, Collier Road, Cambridge, CB1
Received 16 Oct 1978Westry AD Plant, 362 Wisbech Road, Westry, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0BA
Received 3 May 2024Elm Road CP School, Elm Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 31 May 1985Records 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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