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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Great Gidding C Of E Primary School, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 5NX
Received 10 Mar 2022Adjacent West Of Hauxton Sand And Gravel Pit, Church Road, Hauxton, Cambridge, CB2
Received 27 Nov 1951Star Pit And Kings Dyke
Received 26 Apr 1993Comberton Village College, West Street
Received 12 Sept 1990Portholme Sand And Gravel Pit, Bromholme Lane, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 18 Jul 1963Block 19 Ida Darwin Site, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5EE
Received 26 May 2026Sawston Village College, New Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3BP
Received 8 Sept 2016Land At, Willow Row Drove, Littleport, Ely, CB6
Received 9 Apr 1996Milton Household Waste Recycling Centre, Butt Lane, Milton, CB24 6DQ
Received 27 Jul 2026Land At Witcham Meadlands, Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 9 Jul 2001Highway Verge To The South Of Bourn Primary School, Opposite Numbers 46-44 Hall Close And 25-27 Riddly Lane, Bourn
Received 12 Nov 2010Dimmocks Cote Moorings, Stretham Road, Wicken, Cambridgeshire
Received 20 Dec 2002Householders Waste Site, Huntingdon Street, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 1 Apr 1992Burwell House, North Street, Burwell, Cambridge, CB5 0BA
Received 12 Feb 1996Low Bank Farm Clay Pit, Chatteris Road, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 3 Mar 1992Highways Dept. 13 Linton Road, Balsham
Received 27 Jan 1977Land At Views Common, South Of, Stukeley Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 24 Aug 1973The Lanes
Received 21 Oct 1993Alconbury Weald Education Campus , Ermine Street, Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4WX
Received 21 Dec 2021Guilden Morden C E (C) School, Pound Green, Guilden Morden
Received 24 Mar 1998Land At Barrington Cement Works, Chapel Hill, Barrington, Cambridge, CB3
Received 24 Jul 1997Land At, Witchford Village College, Manor Road, Witchford, Ely, CB6 2JA
Received 1 Nov 2005Land At, City Of Ely Community College, Downham Road, Ely, CB6
Received 7 Feb 2002Land Off A605 Churchfield Farm, Kings Dyke, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 3 May 1996Records 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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