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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Samuel Pepys School, Cromwell Road, Eynesbury, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 2EZ
Received 28 Mar 2024Westwood Junior School, Maple Grove, March, PE15 8JT
Received 26 Mar 2018Land Off Blabys Drove, The Gault, Sutton, Ely, CB6
Received 15 Sept 1997Queen Edith Community Primary School , Godwin Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 8QP
Received 4 Mar 2022New Hays Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Ramsey Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 29 Mar 1996Sawtry Infant And Junior Schools, Middlefield Road, Sawtry, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 11 May 1982Sawston Village College, New Road
Received 5 Mar 1987Northstowe Education Campus, Land Adjacent To Stirling Road, Northstowe New Town, Cambridge, CB24 1BN
Received 13 Feb 2019Milton Landfill Site, Butt Lane, Milton, Cambridgeshire, CB24 6DQ
Received 14 Jun 2014Gamlingay Primary School, Green End, Gamlingay
Received 28 Jun 1978St Bedes Inter-church School, Birdwood Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 3TD
Received 2 Jul 2019Thorndown Infant School, Hill Rise, St Ives, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE27 6SE
Received 4 Jul 2011Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Road, Cambridge, CB4 3NY
Received 16 Jun 1981Access To Landfill Site, A1421, Haddenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Received 9 Mar 1976Park Lane Primary School, Park Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE188AG
Received 20 Mar 1995Hardwick Community Primary School, Limes Road
Received 12 Jan 1990Bushmead Infant School, Bushmead Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE193BT
Received 23 Mar 2000Fen Drayton C.P. School, Cootes Lane
Received 4 Sept 1995Boots Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Manea Road, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 1 Jan 1947Adult Training Centre, Marwick Road, March, PE15
Received 16 Nov 1994Alconbury C Of E School, School Lane, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE175EQ
Received 13 Jun 1994Northstowe Secondary College (Northstowe Education Campus), Stirling Road, Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1DJ
Received 9 Dec 2024Fulbourn C.P. School, School Lane
Received 15 Jul 1997Cavalry Primary School, Cavalry Drive, March, PE15 9EQ
Received 4 May 2011Records 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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