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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Devonshire Road/Rustat Road, [Nr.Railway Station]
Received 5 Jan 1987Barrington
Received 18 Feb 1948Land At, Burwell Village College Primary School, The Causeway, Burwell, Cambridge, CB5
Received 4 Apr 2005Northstowe Education Campus , Land Adjacent To Stirling Road, Northstowe New Town, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1BN
Received 21 Feb 2025Hemingford Grey CP School, St. Ives Road, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 8 Sept 1987Warboys CP School, Humberdale Way, Warboys, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 8 Dec 1982Bridge Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Earith Road, Willingham, Cambridge, CB4
Received 16 Nov 1987Huntingdon Technical College, California Road, Huntingdon
Received 5 Feb 1980Adjacent West Of Warboys Clay Pit (1) Off, Puddock Hill, Warboys, Huntingdon
Received 7 May 1973North Of Block Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (1), Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 19 Nov 1971Upwood Primary School, Ramsey Road, Upwood, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE26 2QA
Received 4 Mar 2022Land At, Shire Hall, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3
Received 28 Jun 2004Land To The West Of Cambourne, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Received 12 Feb 2014Land At, Shire Hall, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3
Received 14 Feb 2005Extension To Mill Building At Steeple Morden Chalk Pit (1), Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 29 Sept 1986Neale Wade Community College, Wimblington Road, March, PE159PX
Received 29 Jul 1980Papworth Everard C.P. School, Ermine Street
Received 28 Mar 1990Land North Of Quy Water Farm, High Ditch Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridge, CB5
Received 11 Oct 1976Land South Of Milton Landfill Site, Butt Lane, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 21 Jun 1976Saxon Brickworks, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Received 9 May 2012Sawston Village College, New Road
Received 29 Aug 1991Roundhouse Farm, Puddock Road
Received 27 Sept 1988Bassingbourn C P School, High Street
Received 8 Sept 1989Fenstanton Sand And Gravel Pit (North), Mill Road, Fen Drayton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 17 Dec 1975Records 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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