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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 South Cambridgeshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,276 approved · 106 refused · 172 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Jan 2021 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
23 Broadway Grantchester Cambridgeshire CB3 9NQ
Received 26 Nov 2025Waste Management Park Ely Road Landbeach CB25 9PG
Received 26 Nov 2025Northcott Cottage Dunsbridge Turnpike Shepreth Cambridgeshire
Received 26 Nov 202527 Elm Tree Drive Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5LU
Received 26 Nov 2025College Farm Main Street Caldecote Cambridgeshire CB23 7NU
Received 26 Nov 2025Papworth Hall Ermine Street South Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire CB23 3RD
Received 20 Nov 2025The Rectory 19 West Wratting Road Balsham Cambridgeshire CB21 4DX
Received 20 Nov 2025Land At Melbourn Science Park Cambridge Road Melbourn Cambridgeshire
Received 26 Nov 2025Vitrum Building St Johns Innovation Park Cowley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 0WS
Received 26 Nov 2025Campbell Cottage Little Heath Gamlingay Cambridgeshire SG19 3LL
Received 26 Nov 2025124 High Street Melbourn Cambridgeshire SG8 6AL
Received 27 Nov 202538 Main Street Hardwick Cambridgeshire CB23 7QS
Received 27 Nov 2025Land North Of Lyndhurst Station Road Longstanton Cambridgeshire CB24 3DS
Received 27 Nov 2025The Stables Haverhill Road Horseheath Cambridgeshire CB21 4QN
Received 27 Nov 202591 Swaynes Lane Comberton Cambridgeshire CB23 7EF
Received 27 Nov 202538 Church Street Stapleford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DS
Received 27 Nov 202520 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Received 27 Nov 2025Marleigh Phase 3 Land North Of Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8AA
Received 24 Nov 2025The Green Pathfinder Way Northstowe Cambridgeshire CB24 1FD
Received 27 Nov 2025New Farm Royston Road Melbourn Cambridgeshire SG8 6DH
Received 27 Nov 202554 Buristead Road Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5EJ
Received 27 Nov 202531-35 Car Park Viking Way Bar Hill Cambridgeshire CB23 8SL
Received 27 Nov 202531A Ermine Street South Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire CB23 3QA
Received 28 Nov 202549 Vicarage Close Waterbeach Cambridgeshire CB25 9QG
Received 28 Nov 2025Records 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 South Cambridgeshire 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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