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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.
1,289 approved · 106 refused · 175 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
49 Priams Way Stapleford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DT
Received 23 Dec 202540 Topper Street Orchard Park Cambridgeshire CB4 2WL
Received 23 Dec 2025Marleigh Phase 3 Land North Of Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8AA
Received 19 Dec 202525 High Street Histon Cambridgeshire CB24 9JD
Received 23 Dec 2025Cambridge Innovation Park Denny End Road Waterbeach Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB25 9PB
Received 23 Dec 2025Land To The South Of Chear Fen Boat Club Twentypence Road Cottenham Cambridgeshire
Received 23 Dec 202562 High Street Teversham Cambridgeshire CB1 9BJ
Received 23 Dec 2025Site 1 Granta Park Great Abington Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB21 6GP
Received 23 Dec 2025Land To The South Of Milton Park And Ride Butt Lane Milton Cambridgeshire
Received 23 Dec 2025Land To The Rear Of 27 Cootes Lane Fen Drayton Cambridgeshire
Received 23 Dec 20259 Oslars Way Fulbourn Cambridgeshire CB21 5DS
Received 23 Dec 2025Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Cambridge Road Hinxton Cambridgeshire CB10 1RQ
Received 24 Dec 20255 Water Lane Impington Cambridgeshire CB24 9XW
Received 24 Dec 202518 Dairy Way Balsham Cambridgeshire CB21 4AR
Received 24 Dec 20252 Church Street Stapleford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DS
Received 24 Dec 20252 Church Street Stapleford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DS
Received 24 Dec 20252 Badcock Road Haslingfield Cambridgeshire CB23 1LF
Received 24 Dec 202515 High Street Willingham Cambridgeshire CB24 5ES
Received 24 Dec 2025The Heath Barn Rectory Farm Grange Road Ickleton Cambridgeshire CB10 1TA
Received 24 Dec 2025Stanton Farm Station Road Longstanton Cambridgeshire CB24 3DS
Received 24 Dec 2025Imperial War Museum Royston Road Duxford Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR
Received 24 Dec 202516 High Street Sawston Cambridgeshire CB22 3BG
Received 29 Dec 2025Holiday Inn Express Cambridge Station Road (East) Whittlesford Cambridgeshire CB22 4NL
Received 29 Dec 2025Mount Pleasant Farm 1 Heath Road Gamlingay Cambridgeshire SG19 3LH
Received 29 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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