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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Alderman Payne Primary School, 9 Main Road, Parson Drove, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 4JA
Received 15 Dec 2022Teversham C E Junior School, Church Road, Teversham
Received 6 Oct 1983Bar Hill Farm House, Bar Hilll C P School, Bar Hill
Received 14 Aug 1998Land To The West Of Cambourne.
Received 4 May 20149-10 Grafton Street, Cambridge
Received 10 Sept 1975Land East And West Of Hauxton Sand And Gravel Pit, Church Road, Hauxton, Cambridge, CB2
Received 29 Nov 1952Haddenham Brickworks Clay Pit, Station Road, Haddenham, Ely, CB6
Received 7 Mar 1947Cottenham C.P. School, Lambs Lane
Received 20 Jun 1994Cowley Road Waste Transfer Station, St. John's Innovation Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ
Received 1 Oct 2014Cambridge College Of Further Education, Young Street, Cambridge, CB1
Received 5 Jan 1986Westry Ad Plant, Wisbech Road, Westry, March, PE15 0BA
Received 5 Sept 2014Pools Road Clay Pit, Pools Road, Wilburton
Received 10 May 1994St Ivo School, High Leys, St Ives, PE27 6RR
Received 27 May 2009Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, PE166UU
Received 23 Jan 1980MBT , Cambridge Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Landbeach, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9PH
Received 30 Jun 202336 Cambridge Road
Received 11 Sept 1985Land At, Brackhill Fen, Earith Quarry, Holme Fen Drove, Colne Fen, Earith
Received 6 Jan 2004Land At, Mepal Quarry, Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 31 Mar 2005Cambs. College Of Agriculture & Horticulture
Received 6 Sept 1989Milton Sand And Gravel Pit (III), Cambridge Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 20 Oct 1949Whittlesey Water Recycling Centre, Aliwal Road, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, PE7 2LA
Received 20 Oct 2015Land North Of Barton Road East Of Gadds Lane And West Of, The Still, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Jan 2023Duxford Community School, St. Johns Street
Received 1 May 1987Terrapin Building Blocks A,B,C, Gloucester Court
Received 11 Jul 1983Records 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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