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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Field 0034, Land Adjacent To, Brampton Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 20 Jun 1990Land Adjacent Dane Hill, Kennett
Received 28 Sept 1993Land At Dernford Farm, Cambridge Road, Sawston, Cambridge
Received 12 Nov 2016Sawston Village College
Received 18 Jan 1979St. Johns C. Of E. School, Sallowbush Road
Received 22 Dec 1995Cowley Road Transfer Station, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ
Received 20 May 2009Land At, The Neale-Wade Community College, Wimblington Road, March, PE15
Received 23 Jun 2005Adjacent East Of Great Wilbraham Chalk Pit, London Road, Great Wilbraham, Cambridge, CB1
Received 9 Dec 1955Highfield School, Downham Road, Ely, CB6 1BD
Received 25 Dec 201846-48 Ermine St. & Hospital Site, St. Peters Rd.
Received 25 May 1989Hunters Down Old Peoples Home, Hartford Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 3 Mar 1994Malary House, Brookfield Business Centre, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire CB24 8PS
Received 7 Feb 2012Adjacent South West Of Boots Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Manea Road, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 20 Feb 1951Land Adj. Shireback Track, Guilden Morden And Odsey Estate, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 30 Nov 1990Cottenham Village College
Received 17 Apr 1979Lotts Farm Peat Bog, Ely Road, Prickwillow, Ely, CB7
Received 2 Aug 1995Murrow County Primary School, Murrow Bank, Parson Drove, Wisbech, PE134HD
Received 9 Sept 1987Peckover Primary School, Leverington Road, Wisbech, PE131PJ
Received 13 Apr 1993Swaffham Prior C Of E Community Primary School, Station Road, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, CB5 0LG
Received 15 Jan 1988Bar Hill County Primary School, Bar Hill
Received 4 Feb 1981Alderman Jacobs School, Drybread Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 4 Jun 1991Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9DL
Received 21 Jun 1993Linton Village College, Cambridge Road
Received 19 Apr 1994Land At The Holme, Holme Fen Drove, Colne, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 22 Jan 2001Records 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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