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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Block Fen Quarry, Block Fen Drove, Chatteris, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 2AY
Received 30 Jun 2025A142 Fordham By-Pass, Fordham, Cambridgeshire
Received 3 Dec 2002Land At Alconbury C Of E School, School Lane, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 16 May 2000Land At, Milton Landfill Site, Butt Lane, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 23 Dec 2002Land North Of, Deal Grove, Sawston, Cambridge, CB2
Received 6 May 1981Wisbech Grammar School, North Brink, Wisbech, PE131JX
Received 16 Jan 1990Busy Bees Playgroup, Millfield County Primary School, Grange Lane, Littleport, Ely, CB6 1HW
Received 23 Apr 2024Bulldog Bridge Farm, Mildenhall Road
Received 5 Feb 1991Land East Of 4A, Primrose Hill, Doddington, March, PE15
Received 18 Mar 1999Land Between Ditton Walk And Fen Road, Across Ditton Meadows And The River Cam, Cambridge
Received 16 Sept 2017Land At Bridge Farm, Holme Fen Drove, Colne, Cambridgeshire PE28 5EE
Received 5 Oct 2015Hawthorns Children Home, Haviland Way, Cambridge, CB4 2RA
Received 2 Feb 1988Warboys CP School, Humberdale Way, Warboys, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 15 Sept 1998Coleridge Community College, Radegund Road, Cambridge, CB1 3RJ
Received 25 Apr 1983Land Between Hall Farm And 1 Church Street
Received 20 Sept 1990County School, Long Furlong, Over
Received 5 Sept 1978Glenfield House Old Peoples Home, Money Bank, Wisbech, PE132JF
Received 4 Jun 1987Land At, Westwood Junior School, Maple Grove, March, PE15
Received 18 Oct 1999Extension To Pan And Press Shed Beebys Brickworks, Broadway, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 29 Oct 1986Kings Hedges Primary School, Northfields Avenue, Cambridge, CB4 2HU
Received 29 Jul 2014Cromwell Community College, Wenny Road, Chatteris, PE166UU
Received 8 Sept 1994Land At, Colleges Nursery School, Campkin Road, Cambridge, CB4
Received 24 Oct 2003East Of Chippenham Sand And Gravel Pit, Dane Hill Road, Kennett, Newmarket, CB8
Received 3 Apr 1952Sawston Village College, New Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3BP
Received 14 Aug 2009Records 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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