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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Newmarket Upper School, Exning Road
Received 20 Jun 2002Sinks Pit, Main Road, Kesgrave, Ipswich, IP5 2PE.
Received 20 Feb 2023Normanhurst Fire Station, Normanston Drive, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 2QA
Received 8 Nov 2011Land Adjacent to Bernard Matthews, Upper Holton, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8NJ
Received 10 Jul 2012Moulton Primary School, Chippenham Road
Received 12 Mar 2004B and B Skips Limited Anson Way Ellough Beccles NR34 7TJ
Received 25 Feb 2019Kingsfleet Primary School, Ferry Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9LY
Received 28 May 2002Ilketshall St Lawrence Primary School, Hogg Lane, Ilketshall St Lawrence, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 8ND
Received 14 Nov 2011Barningham Primary School, Church Road, Barningham, Suffolk, IP31 1DD
Received 13 Aug 2013Hollow Road Farm Waste Transfer Station, Fornham St Martin, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 19 Jul 2001Bramstead toTwinstead
Received 12 Feb 2026Foxhall Waste Transfer Station, Foxhall Road, Brightwell, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP10 0HT
Received 15 Jan 2003Cavenham Quarry Marston's Pit Cavenham Heath Cavenham Bury St. Edmunds IP28 6SE
Received 4 Jun 2024Chilton Grove, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 12 Jan 2000Folly Farm Landfill Site, Tattingstone, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 17 Jul 2009Cedarwood Primary School, Wilkinson Drive, Kesgrave, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 2ES
Received 26 Nov 2002Otley Under Fives Centre Otley Primary School, Chapel Road, Otley, Suffolk, IP6 9NT
Received 21 Nov 2016Risby Primary School, Aylmer Close, Risby, Bury St Edmudns, IP28 6RT
Received 26 Oct 2014Woolpit Primary School, Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5SN
Received 6 Feb 2007Buck Land Land to the north of Flixton Road Flixton Bungay NR35 1NZ
Received 27 Feb 2024Wortham Academy Primary School, Wortham, Suffolk, IP22 1PX
Received 16 Feb 2009Roman Hill Primary School, Love Lane, Lowestoft, NR3 22NY
Received 8 Feb 2008The Bridge School, Sprites Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 3ND
Received 29 Apr 2016Hadleigh High School, Highlands Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 5 Dec 2004Records 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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