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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6,198 approved · 194 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chear Fen Sand And Gravel Pit (X), Ely Road, Cottenham, Cambridge
Received 10 May 1968Oxmoor St.John C E [Cont] School, Sallowbush Road
Received 17 Sept 1987Needingworth Quarry, Bluntisham Road, Needingworth, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE28 3RJ
Received 6 Mar 2025Land At, Huntingdon Nursery School, Ambury Road, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 20 Dec 2001Land Off, Poplar Drove, Ten Mile Bank, Littleport, Ely, CB6
Received 9 Apr 2002Babraham Park & Ride, Babraham Road, Cambridge, CB22 3BF
Received 16 Apr 2012Lady Adrian School, Courtney Way, Cambridge, CB4 2EE
Received 3 Jul 2000Parsonage Farm, West End, Whittlesford
Received 26 Jul 1983Milton C.E. School, Humphries Way
Received 2 Dec 1996Milton C.E. School, Humphries Way
Received 8 Jun 1995Ernulf Community School, Eynesbury
Received 26 Nov 1999Land At, Spring Meadow Infant School, High Barns Road, Ely
Received 17 Mar 2003Village College, Melbourn
Received 21 Apr 1976Lantern Primary School, Nene Road, Ely, CB6
Received 21 Apr 2008Harbour School, Station Road, Wilburton, Ely, CB6 3RR
Received 10 May 2006Warboys CP School, Humberdale Way, Warboys, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 17 Aug 1988Gamlingay Village College
Received 11 Aug 1977Land Off, Potton Road, Gamlingay, Sandy, SG19
Received 16 Jul 2001Land To The West Of Enterprise Metals, High Node , Factory Bank, Ramsey
Received 16 Mar 2021Dodding Sewage Treatment Works, Coneywood Road, Doddington, March, PE15
Received 29 Sept 1995Land At, Hatton Park Primary School, Hattons Park, Longstanton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 3 Nov 2005Land West Of High Street And South Of, Newton Road, Little Shelford, Cambridge, CB2
Received 22 Feb 1978Benwick Primary School , High Street, Benwick, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0XA
Received 7 Aug 2024Granary Farm, Forty Foot Bank, Doddington
Received 16 Dec 1982Records 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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