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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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The Work Experience Unit, Cambridge Road
Received 28 Jun 1989Land At, Fenland Pupil Referal Unit, 34A, Station Road, March, PE15
Received 4 Feb 2005Isle Of Ely College And Horticultural Institute, Ramnoth Road, Wisbech, PE132JE
Received 21 Jun 1979Os 3400, Hightown Drove, Burwell, Cambridgeshire
Received 3 Feb 1992Village College, Swavesey
Received 4 Nov 1976Marsh Lane Sand And Gravel Pit (I), Marsh Lane, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 4 Nov 1947Coleridge Community College, Radegund Road, Cambridge, CB1 3RJ
Received 30 Aug 1989Station Farm Landfill Site, Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 5 Mar 1998Bushmead Infant And Junior Schools, Bushmead Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 31 May 1977Railway Cutting, Heath Road, Bluntisham
Received 28 Apr 1975Earith Primary School, School Road, Earith, Huntingdon, PE173QB
Received 30 Jan 1976Land North Of Barton Road East Of Gadds Lane And West Of, The Still, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 23 May 2022Crosshall Jun. And Inf. Schools, Great North Road
Received 30 May 1986Portley Hall Depot, Ely Road, Littleport, Ely, CB6
Received 7 Nov 1997Isle Of Ely College And Horticultural Institute, Ramnoth Road, Wisbech, PE132JE
Received 20 Apr 1983Former Infants School, Haggis Gap
Received 20 Jan 1997Buildings 110 & 118 Alconbury Airfield, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE28 4WX
Received 16 Jan 2013Wintringham Primary Academy, Nuffield Road, St Neots, PE19 0AW
Received 16 Jun 2020Off Cambridge Road, St.Neots
Received 23 Nov 1981Land At St. Augustines School, Tinkers Drove, Wisbech
Received 10 Aug 1999Sir Harry Smith Community College, Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1XB
Received 28 Sept 1988Land At, Kingsfield Primary School, Burnsfield Street, Chatteris, PE16
Received 8 Jul 2005Elm Road Primary School, Elm Road, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 2TB
Received 1 Jul 2011Land At, Netherhall Lower School, Queen Ediths Way, Cambridge, CB1
Received 23 Nov 2004Records 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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