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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.
1,504 approved · 115 refused · 200 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Jan 2021 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Mill Field Cottenham Cambridgeshire CB24 8RA
Received 31 Jul 2026Inti Turari Haverhill Road Castle Camps Cambridgeshire CB21 4TB
Received 31 Jul 2026Land Surrounding Burwash Manor Farm School Lane Barton Cambridgeshire
Received 31 Jul 2026131 The Causeway Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5JB
Received 31 Jul 202612 Augustus Road Northstowe Cambridgeshire CB24 1BQ
Received 30 Jul 202629 Lawrance Lea Harston Cambridgeshire CB22 7QR
Received 31 Jul 20269 Abbey Street Ickleton Cambridgeshire CB10 1SS
Received 31 Jul 202649 Moorfield Road Duxford Cambridgeshire CB22 4PP
Received 31 Jul 2026Land In Front Of 277 St Neots Road Hardwick Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB23 7QL
Received 3 Aug 2026142 High Street Landbeach Cambridgeshire CB25 9FU
Received 3 Aug 20265 Woollards Lane Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LZ
Received 3 Aug 2026David House Glebe House Church Road Shudy Camps Cambridgeshire CB21 4QH
Received 3 Aug 202615 High Street Longstanton Cambridgeshire CB24 3BP
Received 3 Aug 2026Oak Tree House 10 Church Street Little Gransden Cambridgeshire SG19 3DU
Received 3 Aug 202637 Spring Lane Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5HT
Received 3 Aug 202634 Symonds Lane Linton Cambridgeshire CB21 4HY
Received 3 Aug 2026440 Cambridge Science Park Milton Cambridge South Cambridgeshire CB4 0QA
Received 3 Aug 202695A Highfields Road Highfields Caldecote Caldecote Cambridgeshire CB23 7NX
Received 3 Aug 2026Land Between Mingle Lane And Hinton Way Stapleford Cambridgeshire
Received 31 Jul 20269 Haslingfield Road Harlton Cambridgeshire CB23 1ER
Received 3 Aug 2026The Cottage 29 High Street Great Wilbraham Cambridgeshire CB21 5JD
Received 3 Aug 202614 Garden Walk Histon Cambridgeshire CB24 9HH
Received 4 Aug 2026Imperial War Museum, American Air Museum Royston Road Duxford Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR
Received 4 Aug 202618 Woodlands Road Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LW
Received 4 Aug 2026Records 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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