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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At, Huntingdon Nursery School, Ambury Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 19 Apr 2006Murrow AD Plant, Somerset Farm, Cants Drove, Wisbech, PE13 4HN
Received 3 Sept 2026Adjacent South East Of Landbeach Sand And Gravel Pit, Ely Road, Landbeach, Cambridge, CB4
Received 16 Aug 1958Cottenham Primary School, Lambs Lane, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8TA
Received 30 Jan 2014Burwell Library And School, The Causeway, Burwell, Cambridge, CB5
Received 7 Jun 1994Buckden Sand And Gravel Pit (II), Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 21 Jun 1956Land At, Scrapyard, Fordham Road, Snailwell, Newmarket, CB8
Received 10 May 1989Mepal Quarry, Block Fen Drove, Mepal, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2AY
Received 5 Oct 2015Charlton Recycled Autoparts Ltd, Vehicle Recycling Centre, Gravel Pit Hill, Thriplow, Royston, SG8 7HZ
Received 26 Mar 2010Castle Mound, Castle Hill, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AP
Received 5 Mar 2013Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9DL
Received 29 Dec 1977Land Adjacent To 12, Potton Road, Gamlingay, Sandy, SG19
Received 19 Dec 1997Unit 1, 35, Benwick Road, Industrial Estate, Whittlesey, PE7 2HD
Received 15 Aug 2016Colville County Primary School, Colville Road, Cambridge, CB1 9EJ
Received 6 Feb 1990Community Centre, Queens Road, Wisbech, PE132PB
Received 29 Oct 1996County Council Vehicle Depot At Stanton House, Stanton Way, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 15 Aug 1991Thorndown Infant And Junior Schools, Hill Rise, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 29 Mar 1976Edinburgh House, Hooper Street, Cambridge
Received 26 Sept 1983Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Road, Cambridge, CB4 3NY
Received 22 Nov 1994Extension At Coleridge Community College, Radegund Road, Cambridge, CB1
Received 17 Jul 2001Land At Cottenham Primary School, Lambs Lane, Cottenham
Received 11 Jan 2000Land At. Elm Road County Primary School, Elm Road, Wisbech, PE13
Received 17 Apr 2001Swaffham Prior C Of E Community Primary School, Station Road, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, CB5 0LG
Received 10 Jun 1994Land Between, East Chadley Lane &, Park Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 8 Dec 2005Records 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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