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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 30 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Grafham Water Residential Centre, Perry
Received 4 Jan 2000Gamlingay Village College, Station Road
Received 18 Jun 1990Swavesey Primary School, Middle Watch, Swavesey, Cambridge, CB24 4RN
Received 20 Nov 2014Land At Burwell Clay Pit, Little Fen Drove, Burwell
Received 2 Jun 1981Burwell Fire Station, Reach Road, Burwell
Received 9 Nov 1984Land At St Augustines Infants School, Cherry Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 19 Mar 2001Land At, Plasgran Ltd, Bridge Lane, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 22 Aug 2002Ramsey Abbey School, Hollow Lane, Ramsey, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 14 Jun 1979Marsh Lane Quarry, Marsh Lane, Hemingford Grey
Received 29 Aug 2024Hawthorns Children Home, Haviland Way, Cambridge, CB4 2RA
Received 11 Aug 1995Cambridgeshire College Of Arts And Technology, Collier Road, Cambridge, CB1
Received 17 Dec 1980Chesterton Rail Freight Sidings, Chesterton Junction, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0DL
Received 8 Jan 2016The Old Bus Shelter, The Horsefair, Wisbech
Received 26 Jan 1984St Andrews Ce Junior School, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, CB4
Received 17 Dec 1980Kings Dyke Works, Peterborough Rd. Whittlesey
Received 26 Nov 1984Land At, Needingworth Bypass, A1123, Needingworth
Received 5 Aug 1993Northstowe Education Campus, Land Adjacent To Stirling Road, Northstowe New Town, Cambridge, CB24 1BN
Received 12 Jan 2019Land At The Ramnoth County Junior School, Ramnoth Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 3 Aug 2001Over County Primary School, Long Furlong Road, Over
Received 6 Nov 1998Ely St Johns Community Primary School, St Johns Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3BW
Received 6 Aug 2002Waterbeach Community Primary School, High Street, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JU
Received 1 Dec 2020Westfield Junior School , Ramsey Road, St Ives, PE27 5RG
Received 1 May 2025Hills Road Sixth Form College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2PE
Received 9 Jul 1992Yaxley Infants School, Main Street, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 4 Jan 1977Records 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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