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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.
1,531 approved · 117 refused · 202 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
29 Church Street Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5EL
Received 28 Sept 2026Adjacent To Paddock View 5 Rectory Farmyard Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RD
Received 28 Sept 2026Northstowe Phase 2C Rampton Drift Longstanton Cambridgeshire
Received 28 Sept 202665 High Street Oakington And Westwick Cambridgeshire CB24 3AG
Received 28 Sept 202637 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Received 28 Sept 202644 Broad Lane Haslingfield Cambridgeshire CB23 1JF
Received 28 Sept 20262 Manor Farm Barns Cockhall Lane Litlington Cambridgeshire SG8 0RE
Received 28 Sept 2026Bassingbourn Barracks Old North Road Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5LX
Received 28 Sept 202662 High Street Over Cambridgeshire CB24 5ND
Received 28 Sept 2026Land South Of Newmarket Road And East Of Airport Way Fen Ditton Cambridgeshire
Received 28 Sept 2026Former Hypro Building Station Road Longstanton Cambridgeshire CB24 3DS
Received 28 Sept 2026Land North Of Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8AA
Received 28 Sept 2026Marleigh Phase 3 Land North Of Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8AA
Received 28 Sept 2026Marleigh Phase 3 Land North Of Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8AA
Received 28 Sept 2026Riverdale Main Street Shudy Camps Cambridgeshire CB21 4RA
Received 29 Sept 202616 Whittlesford Road Little Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5EW
Received 29 Sept 202670A High Street Graveley Cambridgeshire PE19 6PL
Received 29 Sept 20269 Stokes Close Longstanton Cambridgeshire CB24 3FG
Received 29 Sept 2026Land North Of Cambridge North Station Milton Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Received 29 Sept 20267 Mill Lane Toft Cambridgeshire CB23 2RW
Received 29 Sept 20262 Fowlmere Road Heydon Cambridgeshire SG8 8TH
Received 29 Sept 202628 Giffords Way Over Cambridgeshire CB24 5UB
Received 30 Sept 2026Girton College, Cloisters Court Huntingdon Road Girton Cambridgeshire CB3 0JG
Received 30 Sept 2026Kings Barn High Street Horningsea Cambridgeshire CB25 9JG
Received 30 Sept 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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