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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bassingbourn C.P. School, Brook Road
Received 3 Feb 1989Petersfield C.E. School, Hurdleditch Road
Received 17 Jul 1995Kings Hedges Primary School, Cameron Road, Cambridge, CB4 2LX
Received 11 Jan 1994Alconbury Weald Education Campus, Land At Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Apr 2024Marshalls Mono Ltd, Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE17
Received 3 Mar 1989Woodhatch Farm Recycling Centre, Thrapston Road, Ellington, PE28 4NJ
Received 15 Jun 2019Melbourn Primary School, Mortlock Street, Melbourn
Received 16 May 197989 Parkhall Road, Somersham, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE17
Received 1 May 1999Woodwalton Sewage Treatment Works, Belville, Woodwalton, Cambridgeshire, PE28 5YW
Received 6 Oct 2011Brampton West Sand And Gravel Pit (Ix), Thrapston Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 7 Aug 1984Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9DL
Received 2 Feb 2009Benwick Primary School, High Street, Benwick, PE15 0XA
Received 10 Mar 2021Great Gidding C Of E Primary School, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, PE28 5NX
Received 20 Feb 2012Land At, Hardwick Community Primary School, Limes Road, Hardwick, CB3
Received 12 Mar 2007Land Between Coldham's Lane And River Cam, Through Coldham's Common, Barnwell Junction Pastures And Ditton Meadows Cambridge
Received 31 Jul 2019Manea CP School, Station Road, Manea, March, PE15
Received 16 Feb 199331-35 Market Street, Whittlesey
Received 9 Nov 1982Park Lane Primary School, Park Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE188AG
Received 10 Apr 2001Stilton C Of E School, Church Street, Stilton, Peterborough, PE7 3RF
Received 6 Jun 2018Lionel Walden School, High Street, Doddington, March, PE150TF
Received 1 Aug 1991Land At Nene Infant School, Norwich Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 21 Sept 2001Land At, The Old Gravel Workings, Pitt Farm, Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire
Received 22 Sept 2003St. Pauls C Of E School, Coronation Street, Cambridge, CB2 1HJ
Received 5 Nov 1978The Mill, Ashwell Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 1 Oct 1998Records 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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