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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Cottenham Village College, High Street
Received 21 May 1990Foxton C.P. School, Station Road, Foxton.
Received 4 Sept 1997Former Primary School, High Street
Received 2 Oct 1990Land At, Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB5
Received 18 Jan 2005Kimbolton Station Yard, Kimbolton
Received 4 Mar 1975Morley Memorial Primary School, 91 Blinco Grove, Cambridge, CB1 7TX
Received 20 Dec 1977Milton Landfill Site (II), Butt Lane, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 12 Mar 1991Mepal Reservior, Short North Fen Drove, Sutton, Cambridgeshire
Received 4 Oct 2022Thorndown Infant School, Hill Rise, St Ives, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6SE
Received 10 Jan 2014Vaux Spares Limited, Ashwell And Morden Station Goods Yard, Station Road, Odsey, Cambridgeshire, SG7 5RT
Received 29 Mar 2021St. Ivo School, High Leys, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE174RR
Received 23 Jul 1996Land At, Scrapyard, Fordham Road, Snailwell, Newmarket, CB8
Received 21 May 1984Spaldwick County Primary School, Ferriman Road, Spaldwick, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 1 Aug 1984Offord CP School, Off, High Street, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 5 Sept 1984The Weatheralls County Primary School, Pratt Street, Soham, Cambridgeshire, CB7 5BH
Received 2 Dec 2014Land At, St Ivo School, High Leys, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 27 May 2005Wheatfield Junior & Infant School, Wheatfields, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE176YD
Received 8 Nov 1988Grove Primary School, Campkin Road, Cambridge, CB4 2NB
Received 31 Jul 1984Melbourn Village College
Received 2 Nov 1977Land Adjacent Dismantled Railway Line, Guyhirn Landfill Site, Gull Drove, Guyhirn, Wisbech, PE13
Received 14 Mar 1994City Of Ely Community College, Downham Road, Ely, CB6 2SH
Received 1 Sept 1997Warboys CP School, Humberdale Way, Warboys, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 26 Feb 1985Little Paxton (Diddington) Sand And Gravel Pit, Great North Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 14 Apr 1966Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6UU
Received 13 Mar 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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