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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.
1,277 approved · 106 refused · 173 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Great Common Farm Broadway Bourn Cambridgeshire CB23 2TE
Received 1 Dec 2025Great Common Farm Broadway Bourn Cambridgeshire CB23 2TE
Received 1 Dec 2025The Burlington Press 1 Station Road Foxton Cambridgeshire CB22 6SA
Received 1 Dec 2025The Press Station Road Foxton Cambridgeshire CB22 6SA
Received 1 Dec 2025The Press Station Road Foxton Cambridgeshire CB22 6SA
Received 1 Dec 2025The Kings Orchard Kings Mill Lane Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5EN
Received 1 Dec 2025CPC4 Car Park Capital Park Cambridge Road Fulbourn Cambridgeshire CB21 5XE
Received 1 Dec 20253 Highfield Farm Highfields Road Highfields Caldecote Caldecote Cambridgeshire CB23 7NS
Received 1 Dec 202513 London Road Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DB
Received 1 Dec 202588 High Street Great Abington Cambridgeshire CB21 6AE
Received 2 Dec 20251A Bartlow Road Linton Cambridgeshire CB21 4LY
Received 2 Dec 2025College Farm Main Street Caldecote Cambridgeshire CB23 7NU
Received 2 Dec 202548 Orchard Road Melbourn Cambridgeshire SG8 6BP
Received 2 Dec 202513 Pettitts Lane Dry Drayton Cambridgeshire CB23 8BT
Received 2 Dec 20253 Church End Rampton Cambridgeshire CB24 8QA
Received 2 Dec 2025Darwin Green Phases Two And Three Development Site Cambridge Road Impington Cambridgeshire
Received 2 Dec 202521 Hawking Way Cottenham Cambridgeshire CB24 8AR
Received 2 Dec 202555 North Road Great Abington Cambridgeshire CB21 6AS
Received 2 Dec 2025Thatchways Little Green Guilden Morden Cambridgeshire SG8 0LG
Received 2 Dec 2025St Denis Church East Hatley Hatley Cambridgeshire SG19 3JA
Received 2 Dec 2025Knapwell Wood Farm House Wood Farm The Knapwell Wood Road Knapwell Cambridgeshire CB23 4NS
Received 3 Dec 2025124 Hinton Way Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5AL
Received 3 Dec 202561 Chapelfield Way Sawston Cambridgeshire CB22 3SY
Received 3 Dec 2025Church Farm West Wickham Road Horseheath Cambridgeshire CB21 4QA
Received 3 Dec 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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