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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Littleton House Special School, Girton
Received 18 Oct 1984Cottenham Village College
Received 2 Apr 1987Land Rear Of 22 St Andrews Street, Cambridge
Received 17 Sept 1984St. Ivo School, High Leys, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE174RR
Received 8 Jul 1993Lady Adrian School, Courtney Way, Cambridge, CB4 2EE
Received 16 Feb 1996Pond Within Chear Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (Xxiii), Setchell Drove, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB4
Received 23 Apr 1992St Johns C E School, Sallowbush Road, Huntingdon
Received 23 Sept 1998Adjacent South Of Block Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (2), Block Fen, Mepal, Ely, CB6
Received 5 Dec 1966Storage Buildings At, Kings Dyke Brickworks, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 20 Apr 2000Orchard Court Junior Training Centre, Money Bank, Wisbech, PE13
Received 26 Jan 1984Land Off, A505, Hinxton, Cambridge
Received 13 Oct 1976New Farm, Whaddon
Received 23 Apr 1979Grove County Primary School, Campkin Road, Cambridge CB4
Received 18 Jul 2008Sutton C Of E County Primary School, The Brook, Sutton, Ely, CB6
Received 18 Aug 1987Wilbraham Chalk Pit, Mill Road, Great Wilbraham, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB21 4HH
Received 5 Jun 2024Land At, Marston Road, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE19
Received 5 Nov 1981Whittlesey
Received 5 Jul 1966Fen Drayton Sand And Gravel Pit (Xii), Holywell Ferry Road, Fen Drayton
Received 2 Apr 1973St. Helen's C.P. School, Colne Road
Received 15 Sept 1986Whitemoor Sidings, Hundred Road, March, PE15 8QJ
Received 3 Sept 2014Foxton C.P. School, Station Road, Foxton.
Received 2 Apr 1997Stukeley Meadows Industrial Estate, Alms Close, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE18
Received 20 May 1992Duxford Church Of England Community Primary School, St Johns Street, Duxford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB22 4RA
Received 6 Jul 2023Land At, Hinchingbrooke School And Land Adjacent To Snowdonia Way, Brampton Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 6 Jun 2003Records 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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