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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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Suffolk County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,123 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 May 1999 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Tudor Primary School, Tudor Road, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 10 Aug 2005Kedington Primary School, Church Walk, Kedington, Suffolk, CB9 7QY
Received 17 Jun 2010St Joseph's Primary School, Beaconsfield Road, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 6JP
Received 31 Jan 2012Land off Station Road (New Primary School) Lakenheath IP27 9JE
Received 21 Aug 2023East Bergholt Primary School, School Lane, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk, CO7 6SW
Received 4 Jan 2003Hartest Primary School, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 4DL
Received 16 May 2011Foxhall Quarry, Foxhall Road, Foxhall, Ipswich
Received 1 Feb 2016Bolton Bros Ltd, Bramford Road, Great Blakenham, Ipswich
Received 18 Aug 2015St Gregory Primary School-, Church Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2BJ
Received 11 Oct 2017Leiston Primary School, King Georges Avenue, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4JQ
Received 1 Jul 2010Heath Primary School, Bell Lane, Kesgrave, IP5 1JG
Received 7 Jul 2011West Row Primary School, Beeches Road, West Row, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8NY
Received 6 Mar 2017Stoke By Nayland Primary School, School Street, Stoke by Nayland
Received 22 Apr 2008Haverhill Waste Transfer Station Homefield Road Haverhill Suffolk CB9 8QP
Received 26 Jul 2023East Ipswich Fire Station, The Havens, Ransomes Europark, Ipswich, IP3 9SJ
Received 13 Oct 2011Alexandra House, 67a, Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3JY
Received 27 Jul 2010Rougham Highways Depot, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 31 Jan 2005Carlton ColvilleFormer Primary School, 25, Church Lane, Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 8AY
Received 20 Jul 2010Hadleigh Fire station, Calais Street, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 18 Oct 2011Nayland Fire Station, Bear Street, Nayland, CO6 4HY
Received 21 Jan 2010Pakefield Primary School, 82, London Road, Pakefield, NR33 7AQ
Received 31 Jan 2011The Cangle Primary School, Chapple Drive, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0DU
Received 15 Nov 2006Sybil Andrews Academy, Rougham Tower Avenue., Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7QB
Received 14 Mar 2017Ipswich Academy, Lindbergh Road, Ipswich, IP3 9PZ
Received 20 Sept 2013Records 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 Suffolk County 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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