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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.
5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Virdor Waste Management, Wangford Landfill Site, Hill Road, Wangford, NR34 8AR
Received 20 Nov 2014Foxhall Landfill Site, Foxhall Road, Brightwell, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP10 0HT
Received 23 Dec 2014Whitton Green Primary School, Westwood Avenue, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 9RR
Received 20 Jun 2005Saxmundham Primary School, Brook Farm Road, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1XQ
Received 29 Feb 2008Stone Lodge Community Centre, Hawthorn Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 6 Mar 2006Ingham Household Waste Recycling Centre, Thetford Road, Ingham
Received 15 Jan 2002Colchester Road Fire Station, Colchester Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 29 May 2012Fornham Sewage Treatment Works, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 8 Jul 2001Land at Westerfield Road, Westerfield, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 9HZ.
Received 22 Aug 2024Stowupland High School Church Road Stowupland IP14 4BQ
Received 16 Nov 2020Mildenhall Community Resource Centre, Recreation Way
Received 6 Aug 2004Red Lodge Waste Transfer Station, Green Lane, The Carrops, Red Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8LD
Received 7 Jan 2011Ixworth Middle School, Walsham Road
Received 16 May 2006Lakenheath Recycling Centre Brandon Road, Eriswell, Suffolk, IP27 9PS
Received 10 Jan 2018East Anglia Two Offshore Wind Farm
Received 27 Jun 2024Wells Hall Primary School, Wells Hall Road, Great Cornard, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 29 Oct 1999Cliff Lane Primary School, Cliff Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 25 Mar 2009East Bergholt High School, Heath Road, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk, CO7 6RJ
Received 21 Sept 2009Fire Stations, .
Received 28 Jan 2014Park Farm, The Street, Cavenham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6DA
Received 28 Jun 2016Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ_
Received 20 Apr 2015Worlingham CEVCP School, Rectory Lane, Worlingham, Beccles, Suffolk
Received 8 Nov 2006Kingsfleet Primary School, Ferry Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9LY
Received 21 Dec 2009Uplands Community Centre, Ashburnham Way, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 14 Aug 2009Records 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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