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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Andrews C Of E Junior School, Sand Street, Soham, Ely, CB7 5AA
Received 8 Feb 2011Huntingdon Technical College, California Road, Huntingdon
Received 15 Dec 1976Leverington County Primary School, Church End, Leverington, Wisbech, PE135DD
Received 8 Sept 1976Witchford Village College, Manor Road, Witchford, Ely, CB6 2JA
Received 8 Jun 1984Land To The South Of Stirling Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Buckden Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 3 Feb 1975Manea Primary School, Station Road, Manea, March, PE15 0HA
Received 5 Jun 2018A14/A603 And A14/B1042 Junctions
Received 7 Feb 1989Cambridge College Of Further Education, York Street, Cambridge, CB1
Received 11 Aug 1987Soham Fire Station, Soham
Received 4 Feb 1977Land At Ashbeach Primary School, Ashbeach Drove, Ramsey St Marys
Received 17 Apr 2007Land At Guyhirn Landfill Site, Gull Road, Guyhirn, Wisbech, PE13
Received 19 Jul 2001Burnsfield Infs & King Edward Jun School, Burnsfield Estate, Chatteris, PE16
Received 8 Sept 1992Land At, Meadowgate Special School, Meadowgate Lane, Wisbech, PE13
Received 12 Dec 2002Needingworth Quarry, Bluntisham Road, Needingworth, PE27 4TA
Received 23 Jun 2025British Rail Central Materials Depot, West Of, Fen Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 14 Jun 1988Histon Junior School, The Green, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9JA
Received 23 Aug 2018St. Ivo School, High Leys, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE174RR
Received 1 Feb 1984Medworth Efw Chp Facility, Algores Way, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Received 3 Feb 2025Clear Fen Sand And Gravel Pit, Twentypence Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB4
Received 16 May 1968St. Johns C. Of E. School, Sallowbush Road
Received 22 Dec 1995Adjacent East Of Cow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit, Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 22 Dec 1975Buckden Ce School, School Lane, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 11 Jul 1977Isleham C Of E School, Malting Lane, Isleham, Ely, CB7 5RZ
Received 30 Jan 1981N. Of A1307 Babraham Road/W. Of Cherryhinton Road
Received 28 Jun 1996Records 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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