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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Ticehurst Gravels, Ticehurst Farm, Drinkstone, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP30 9PH
Received 29 Oct 2008Claydon Skips Ltd Land and Buildings at, Masons Landfill Site, Great Blakenham, IP6 0JX
Received 10 May 2018Alderwood Pupil Referral Unit, Raeburn Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 0EW
Received 18 Dec 2007Hollesley Primary School, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 22 Sept 1999Haverhill Waste Transfer Station, Homefield Road, Haverhill, Suffolk
Received 3 Mar 2000Ingham Household Waste Recycling Centre, Thetford Road, Ingham
Received 27 Jun 2011Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2BX
Received 17 Jun 2025Thomas Mills High School, Saxtead Road, Framlingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Received 22 Jul 2002Broke Hall Primary School, Chatsworth Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 26 Jul 2011Mile End, London Road, Ipswich
Received 26 Jan 2006Cedars Park Primary School, Pintail Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5FP
Received 26 Feb 2014Barrow Primary School Church Road Barrow IP29 5AU
Received 4 Feb 2020Bentley Primary School, The Street, Bentley, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 20 Apr 2017Clopton Landfill Site, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 3 Feb 2001Waldringfield Quarry, Waldingfield Road, Brightwell, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 2 Nov 2003Samuel Ward Upper School, Chalkstone Way, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0LD
Received 18 Mar 2008Moulton Primary School, School Road, Moulton, Newmarket, Suffolk
Received 17 May 2011ST MARYS PRIMARY SCHOOL, BURKITT ROAD, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 4JJ
Received 13 Apr 2010Suffolk One, Scrivener Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 17 Aug 2011Thomas Mills High School Academy, Saxtead Road, Framlingham, IP13 9HE
Received 17 May 2011Thurston Community College, Norton Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 1 Dec 2014Orford Primary School, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 1 Sept 2001Land at the Denham Estate, Barrow Road, Denham, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 1 Jul 2011Wells Hall Primary School, Wells Hall Road, Great Cornard, Sudbury, CO10 0NH
Received 5 Aug 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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