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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 · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Fenland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,376 approved · 643 refused · 232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Mar 2014 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land North Of 96A To 100 Westfield Road Manea Cambridgeshire
Received 4 Oct 2022Land North Of 6 Riverside Gardens Parson Drove Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Oct 2022Land North Of 2 - 8 Gibside Avenue Chatteris Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Oct 2022Clough Cross Farm Marshalls Bank Parson Drove Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 4JE
Received 5 Oct 2022Land North Of 84 Upwell Road Access From Smiths Drive March Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Oct 2022Land East Of Thank Goodness Mile Tree Lane Wisbech Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Oct 2022Land To The South Of 8 Crown Avenue Christchurch
Received 5 Oct 2022Laddus Farm March Riverside Upwell Wisbech PE14 9AT
Received 6 Oct 2022Land South East Of Dove Cottage Gull Road Guyhirn Cambridgeshire
Received 7 Oct 202219 The Avenue March Cambridgeshire PE15 9PS
Received 7 Oct 20224 Fourth Avenue Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 2BU
Received 10 Oct 202243 Burnthouse Road Turves Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE7 2DP
Received 10 Oct 2022Land West Of 29 March Road Wimblington Cambridgeshire
Received 7 Oct 2022Woodthorne House 143 Back Road Murrow Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 4JW
Received 12 Oct 202212 Ellingham Avenue March Cambridgeshire PE15 9TF
Received 7 Oct 2022Land North East Of 53 The Chase Leverington Cambridgeshire
Received 10 Oct 202214 Blackmill Road Chatteris Cambridgeshire PE16 6SR
Received 14 Oct 2022Land West Of 132 Elm Road Access Via Marwick Road March Cambridgeshire
Received 6 Oct 20224 Portland Place Whittlesey Cambridgeshire PE7 1SB
Received 6 Oct 20222 Townshend Road Wisbech Cambridgeshire
Received 10 Oct 2022Land North Of Whittlesey East Of East Delph Whittlesey Cambridgeshire
Received 12 Oct 2022Land At Womb Farm Doddington Road Chatteris Cambridgeshire
Received 12 Oct 2022Wisbech Park Lynn Road Wisbech Cambridgeshire
Received 17 Oct 20221 Bowthorpe Hall Gardens Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 2HF
Received 10 Oct 2022Records 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 Fenland District 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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