Understanding planning · 13 min read
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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ambury Road C.P. School, Ambury Road
Received 29 Apr 1991Council Depot, Station Road
Received 6 Nov 1991Land At Junction Of Station Road And, Hinton Hedges Road, Haddenham
Received 9 Nov 1988Unit 1 And 2, Eastwood Industrial Estate, Eastwood End, Wimblington, PE15 0QN
Received 1 Apr 2019Folksworth County Primary School, Folksworth
Received 11 Feb 1981Burwell House, North Street, Burwell, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 0BB
Received 2 Mar 2023Sir Harry Smith Community College, Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1XB
Received 31 Aug 1982Os 0059 Whitwell Farm, Offord Cluny
Received 20 Nov 2002Land At, Monkfield Park Primary School, School Lane, Cambourne, Cambridge, CB
Received 6 Aug 2004Cement Blending Building At Cement Works, Chapel Hill, Barrington, Cambridge, CB3
Received 17 Mar 1986Northstowe Education Campus, Stirling Road, Northstowe, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1DJ
Received 2 Oct 2023CPPC, Trumpington
Received 16 May 2000Histon New School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge
Received 12 Feb 1979William Westley C Of E Primary School, Mill Lane, Whittlesford, Cambridge, CB22 4NE
Received 26 Sept 2017Land South West Of, The Carrops, Freckenham
Received 2 Mar 1990Cambridgeshire College Of Arts And Technology, Collier Road, Cambridge, CB1
Received 17 Jun 1985Hinchingbrooke Park
Received 14 May 19904 Regent Avenue, March
Received 19 Aug 1997Millfield Primary School, Grange Lane, Littleport, Ely, CB6 1HW
Received 24 Jun 2015Land To Rear Of 6, Hardwick Road, Toft, Cambridge, CB3
Received 15 Jul 1992The Bellbird Primary School, Link Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3GB
Received 19 Aug 2016Holywell School, Mill Way, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE173TF
Received 13 May 1999Donarbon Ltd, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge CB25 9PG
Received 19 Oct 2010Police Housing, Manor Gardens, High Street, Brampton
Received 13 May 1982Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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