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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Colville CP School, Colville Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge
Received 20 Apr 1988Land At, Castle Court, Castle Hill, Cambridge, CB3
Received 31 Jul 2003St. Ivo School, High Leys, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE174RR
Received 6 Jun 1988Medworth Efw Chp Facility, Algores Way, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 14 Apr 2025Land At Block Fen Farm, Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 16 Jun 1998Little Paxton CP School, Gordon Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE194NG
Received 7 Feb 1977Land At, Cottenham Primary School, Lambs Lane, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB4
Received 1 Sept 2006Land At: New Road County Primary School, New Road, Whittlesey
Received 20 Aug 2007Waterbeach Works Experience Unit, Cambridge Road
Received 26 Sept 1975Land At, The Ailwyn School, Abbey Road, Ramsey, Huntingdon, PE26
Received 25 Apr 2005Kennett Recycling Facility, Plantation Farm, Chippenham Road, Kennett, Cambridgeshire, CB8 7QJ
Received 1 Jun 2013Land At, Pye House, Branch Bank, Prickwillow, Ely, CB7
Received 3 Mar 2004Coleridge Community College, Radegund Road, Cambridge, CB1 3RJ
Received 22 Sept 1975Fen Drayton Primary School, Cootes Lane, Fen Drayton
Received 24 Jul 1998Envar Composting Ltd, St Ives Road, Somersham, PE28 3BS
Received 23 Jun 2021Burrowmoor Junior & Infant School, Burrowmoor Road, March, Cambridgeshire, PE159RP
Received 6 Jan 1992Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB25 9DL
Received 17 Oct 2017Girton Glebe Primary School, Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0PN
Received 5 Jan 2016Milton Sand And Grvel Pit (Viii), Cambridge Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 25 Jul 1955Land South West Of Block Fen Farm, Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 16 Mar 1999Buckden Sand And Gravel Pit (I), Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 18 Jun 1947Land At Saxon Pit, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1PD
Received 10 Aug 2022Land Rear Of Eden Cottage, Cross Lane, Wisbech, PE13
Received 9 Sept 1991North Side Of Seadyke Road, Murrow
Received 4 Jun 1992Records 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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