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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
March Landfill Site, Hundred Road, March, Cambridgeshire
Received 23 Mar 2026Land At: Murfitt Industries Ltd, Wisbech Road (A1101), Littleport, Cambridge, CB6
Received 14 Aug 2007New Farm, A14
Received 20 Jun 1986Land Off, Potton Road, Gamlingay, Sandy, SG19
Received 31 Mar 2004Adjacent East Of Kennett Sand And Gravel Pit, Dane Hill Road, Kennett, Newmarket, CB8
Received 2 Apr 1962Elm Cemetery, Friday Bridge Road, Elm, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 28 Aug 2009Main Entrance, Huntingdon Technical College, California Road
Received 23 Feb 1984St Annes C Of E Primary School, London Road, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 2WW
Received 25 Jan 2023Gravel Diggers Farm, Waterbeach Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9PG
Received 9 Jan 2013West Fen Farm, Whitemoor Road, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0AF
Received 25 Jul 2022Histon And Impington Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9JA
Received 31 Jan 2020Mayfield Primary School, Warwick Road, Cambridge, CB4 3HN
Received 14 May 1984Land Off, Great Drove, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 2 Aug 1996Bridge Farm, Holme Fen Drove, Colne, Huntingdon, PE28 3RE
Received 2 Mar 2017Highfield School, Tower Road, Ely, CB7 4HW
Received 12 May 1997Spring Common School, American Lane, Huntingdon, PE187TY
Received 4 Jul 1975Needingworth Quarry, Needingworth Road, Bluntisham, Huntingdon, PE28 3RJ
Received 22 Dec 2016Downham Feoffees School, Main Street, Little Downham, Ely, CB6 2ST
Received 8 May 1990Not Known
Received 10 Apr 1973Land At, Meadowgate Special School, Meadowgate Lane, Wisbech, PE13
Received 10 Jul 2002Land On, Somersham Landfill Site, Long Drove, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 30 Nov 2001Cambridgeshire County Fire & Rescue Service, Hartford Road, Huntingdon, PE186RH
Received 19 Dec 1996Former Clay Borrow Pit Mepal Airfield, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 24 Aug 1998Queen Edith Primary School, Godwin Way, Cambridge, CB1 8QP
Received 25 Feb 2010Records 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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