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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Colville County Primary School, Colville Road, Cambridge, CB1 9EJ
Received 23 May 1977Kings Hedges Farm Site, Kings Hedges Road
Received 3 Apr 1989Roger Ascham Site, Ascham Road, Cambridge, CB4 2BD
Received 27 Oct 1994Extension To Pan And Press Shed (II) Beebys Brickworks, Broadway, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 29 Sept 1988Land Within Buckden Sand And Gravel Pit (III), Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 1 Jun 1992Land Adjacent To Function Room Whitgates Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Upwell Road, March, PE15
Received 25 Jan 1995Morley Memorial Primary School, 91 Blinco Grove, Cambridge, CB1 7TX
Received 3 Jul 1980Railway Cutting South-West Of Fleam Dyke Off, Balsham Road, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB1
Received 7 Mar 1986Land At, Burrough Green C E (C) Primary School, Burrough Green, Newmarket, CB8
Received 16 Nov 2004Land North Of Barton Road East Of Gadds Lane And West Of, The Still, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 9 Mar 2023Land Within And To The West Of Rectory Farm Sand And Gravel Pit (III), Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 31 Aug 1977Land At, St John's Ce Primary School, Sallowbush Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 28 Jun 2002Land At Brickyard Farm, Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, PE29 2EJ
Received 2 Oct 2020Cherry Hinton Infant School, High Street, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, CB1 9HH
Received 29 Aug 1974Land Adjacent Recycling Centre, Gravel Pit Hill, Thriplow, Royston, SG8
Received 9 Apr 1998Murrow County Primary School, Murrow Bank, Parson Drove, Wisbech, PE134HD
Received 2 Jul 1999Land At Streetly Hall Farm, Streetly End, West Wickham, Cambridge, CB21 4RP
Received 22 Apr 2025Land At Saxon Works, Kings Dyke, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7
Received 22 Oct 1952Upware Field Studies Centre, Upware, Ely, CB7
Received 10 Aug 1979Land Off, Hostmoor Avenue, March, PE15
Received 14 May 1998Sir Harry Smith Community College, Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1XB
Received 11 Mar 2008Samuel Pepys School, Cromwell Road, Eynesbury, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 2EZ
Received 4 Feb 2026Land At Meadowgate School, Meadowgate Lane, Wisbech
Received 5 Aug 2008Abberley House, Granhams Road
Received 2 Feb 1987Records 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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