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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land At Steeple Morden Chalk Pit (1), Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 27 Jan 1981Queen Edith County Primary School, Godwin Way, Cambridge, CB1 8QP
Received 20 Dec 1977Land At, Caldecote CP School, Highfields, Caldecote, Cambridge, CB3
Received 14 Jul 2005New School Site, Upper Cambourne, Cambridgeshire
Received 14 Sept 2004Yaxley Infants School, Main Street, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 18 Jul 1997Hatton Park CP School, Hattons Park, Longstanton, Cambridge, CB24 3DL
Received 7 Jun 2017Land At, Harbour Special Needs School, The Drive, Off Station Road, Wilburton, Ely, CB6
Received 18 Nov 2003Conveyor Bridge At Fen Drayton Sand And Gravel Pit, Holywell Ferry Road, Fen Drayton
Received 14 Jul 1975Drummer Street, Cambridge
Received 26 Jul 1983Sir Harry Smith Community College, Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1XB
Received 12 Apr 2011Envar Composting Ltd. The Heath, Woodhurst, Huntingdon, PE28 3BS
Received 23 Jun 2017Benwick Road Industrial Estate, 35 Benwick Road, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
Received 30 May 2018Land west of Snoots Bridge, Cambridge Road, Stretham, CB6 3LU,
Received 4 Aug 2026Rex Cinema Site, Magrath Avenue, Cambridge
Received 1 May 1979Bassingbourn Community Primary School, Brook Road, Bassingbourn, Royston, SG8 5NP
Received 7 Nov 2017Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9DL
Received 6 Jul 1983Babraham C Of E Primary School, High Street, Babraham, Cambridge, CB22 3AG
Received 8 Nov 2016Meadow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit (Xvii), Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 8 Mar 1979Land South Of Haddon Road Grange Farm, Haddon Road, Peterborough, PE3
Received 29 Dec 1997Land At Station Farm, Brampton Road, Buckden, St Neots, PE19 5UH
Received 24 Nov 2009Sawtry Community College, Fen Lane, Sawtry, Huntingdon, PE175TQ
Received 13 Apr 1976Wisbech Adventure Playground, Waterlees Road, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 3HB
Received 10 Feb 2026Land At, Thriplow Household Waste Recycling Centre, Gravel Pit Hill, Thriplow, Royston, SG8
Received 13 Dec 2004Chatteris Nightlayer Fen Water Recycling Centre, Short Nightlayers Drove, Chatteris, PE16
Received 25 Oct 2017Records 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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