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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gamlingay First School, Green End
Received 2 Apr 1987Land At, Waste Transfer Station, Second Drove, Meadow Lane, St Ives, PE27
Received 23 Jul 2007Hills Road Sixth Form College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2PE
Received 31 Aug 1985Meadow C.P. School, High Street
Received 30 Aug 1996Part Of Former Railway Cutting Between Colne & Somersham
Received 9 May 1982St John's C Of E School, Sallowbush Road, Huntingdon
Received 12 Aug 1997Fenstanton County Primary School, School Lane, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, PE189JR
Received 19 Apr 1995Elm C Of E Junior School, Main Road, Elm, Wisbech, PE140AG
Received 2 Feb 1993Land For New Offices North Of, County Road, March, PE15
Received 10 Apr 2001Junior School, School Lane, Fulbourn
Received 20 Nov 1979Station Quarry , Station Road, Odsey, Cambridgeshire, SG7 5RT
Received 27 Feb 2026Somersham CP School, Parkhall Road, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE173EU
Received 10 May 1993Kings Dyke Brickworks, Peterborough Rd. Whittlesey
Received 21 Jan 1986Conway House, 49 Downham Road, Ely
Received 10 Dec 1998Fulbourn C.P. School, School Lane
Received 4 Sept 1995Former Hereward Comprehensive School, Robingoodfellows Lane, March, PE15
Received 22 Jun 1977The Village College,Gamlingay
Received 10 May 1989Land Between 12 & 14 Ness Road
Received 14 Nov 1988Land To The South Of Ely Between Angel Drove & Stuntney Causeway
Received 31 Jan 2017Householders Waste Recycling Centre, Alconbury Hill, Alconbury Weston, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 16 Mar 1994Hales Waste Control, Marston Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 25 May 2001Ramsey St. Mary's C.P. School, Ashbeach Road
Received 25 Nov 1991Buckden C Of E Primary School, School Lane, Buckden, PE19
Received 8 Jun 2007Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Road, Cambridge, CB4 3NY
Received 11 Jun 2019Records 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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