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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Grunty Fen Landfill Site, Pools Road, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire
Received 16 Apr 1998Duxford Ce Community Primary School, St. Johns Street, Duxford
Received 23 Dec 1998Land North Of, Dimmock's Cote Road, Wicken, Ely, CB7
Received 17 Apr 1998Land At, Stangate Business Park, Alconbury Hill, Alconbury Weston, Huntingdon, PE28
Received 24 Aug 2004St. Ivo School, High Leys, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE174RR
Received 6 Dec 1978St Ives Park And Ride Site, The Meadow, Meadow Lane, St. Ives, PE27 4LG
Received 5 Jan 2018Land At, Britannia Way, Wisbech
Received 21 Oct 2008Os 1565.9966.5100.2400.4600.7200.9615.6171.18, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 30 Jan 1947Land At Linton Village College, Cambridge Road, Linton
Received 3 Oct 2002Adjacent East Of Weybridge Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Great North Road, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 18 Feb 1994Land North And South Of Ely And Peterborough Branch Line, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 1 Jan 1946Land Adjacent To March Landfill Site, Hundred Road, March, PE15
Received 18 Jan 1996Histon Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9JA
Received 29 Jul 2017Meadow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit (XX), Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 22 Nov 1989Land At, Lessana Farm, Cantelupe Road, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB3
Received 2 Feb 2001Duxford Church Of England Community Primary School, St Johns Street, Duxford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB22 4RA
Received 31 May 2023The Weatheralls CP School, Pratt Street, Soham, Ely, CB7 5BH
Received 8 Jun 1982Coopers Farm, Land 500 Metres Southeast Of Langwood Fen Farm , Langwood Fen Drove, Chatteris, PE16 6XF
Received 6 Sept 2022St Marys Ce School, Wintringham Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 3 Oct 1975Red Lodge Waste Transfer/Recycling Station, The Carrops, Red Lodge
Received 23 Dec 2010Grenville Way, Eaton Socon
Received 11 Dec 1979South West Of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Between Robinson Way And Addenbrooke's Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Received 28 Feb 2014Redland, South East Of Buckden S & G Pit, Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 1 Apr 1963Mepal Reservior, Short North Fen Drove, Sutton, Cambridgeshire
Received 9 Jul 2020Records 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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