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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cottenham Village College, High Street, Cottenham
Received 5 Jun 1998Queen Edith Community Primary School, Godwin Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 8QP
Received 4 Mar 2022Guyhirn Landfill Site, Gull Drove, Guyhirn, Wisbech, PE13
Received 15 Mar 1999Benwick Primary School, High Street, Benwick, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0XA
Received 14 Jul 2010Land At, Histon & Impington Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, CB4
Received 1 Aug 2002Fen Drayton C.P. School, Cootes Lane
Received 11 Jun 1992Land At, Ditton Lodge First School, St. Johns Avenue, Newmarket, CB8
Received 13 Nov 2002Duxford Church Of England Community Primary School, St Johns Street, Duxford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB22 4RA
Received 7 Apr 2022Icknield Primary School, Lynton Way, Sawston
Received 20 Jan 1977Land West Of, Mill Hill Lane, March, PE15
Received 23 Aug 1990Land At, Ramsey Abbey School, Hollow Lane, Ramsey, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 14 Jun 2004Witcham Meadlands Quarry, Block Fen Drove, Block Fen, Mepal, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire CB6 2AY
Received 18 Aug 2009South Of, Knobbs Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Fen Lane, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 17 Sept 1998Land At, Hatton Park Primary School, Hatton Park, Longstanton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 15 Jul 2004Priory Junior & Infant School, Galfrid Road, Cambridge, CB5 8ND
Received 30 Aug 1989Osp 1976, Land Off, Church Lane, Haddenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6
Received 29 Aug 1991Queens School, Corporation Road, Wisbech, PE132SE
Received 6 Mar 1984Land To The South Of Ely Between Angel Drove & Stuntney Causeway
Received 15 Jan 2019Land At Rear Of Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris
Received 5 Aug 2008Land At, Manor Community College, Arbury Road, Cambridge, CB4
Received 22 Dec 2003Travellers Site, First Drove, Burwell, Cambridge, CB5
Received 19 Apr 1991Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9DL
Received 3 Apr 1996Soham WRC, Broad Piece, Soham, Cambridgeshire
Received 25 Oct 2022Spring Meadow Infants School, High Barns, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4RB
Received 13 May 2009Records 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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