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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Highways Depot Depden, Bury Road, Depden, Haverhill, Suffolk, IP29 4BP
Received 6 Feb 2014Combs Ford Primary School, Glemsford Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 2PN
Received 6 Jan 2004Land adjacent Manor Farm House, Church Lane, Westerfield, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 28 Oct 2013Highway Depot, 3, Goddard Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5NP
Received 22 Feb 2011St Louis Primary School, Fordham Road, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7AA
Received 9 Nov 20105, Strasbourg Square, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0HR
Received 27 Oct 2010St Edmund's Catholic Primary School, Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QG
Received 8 Apr 2003Mildenhall Upper School, Bury Road, Brandon, Suffolk
Received 4 May 2012Stepping Stones Pre School Rear of Exning Primaary School Oxford Street Exning Newmarket CB8 7EW
Received 31 Mar 2022Leiston Fire Station, King Georges Avenue, Leiston, Suffolk., IP16 4JX
Received 15 May 2014Highfield Norton Road Thurston Bury St. Edmunds IP31 3QH
Received 10 Jan 2022Guildhall Feoffment Community Primary School, Bridewell Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1RE
Received 2 Jul 2018Gunton Primary Academy, Gainsborough Drive, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 4LX
Received 2 Nov 2005St Mary's Primary School, Trinity Avenue, Mildenhall, Suffolk
Received 27 Aug 2010Kyson Primary School, Peterhouse Crescent, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 4HX
Received 23 Oct 2008Samuel Ward Upper School, Chalkstone Way, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0LD
Received 29 Jan 2001East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm
Received 20 Oct 2025Masons Landfill Site, Great Blakenham
Received 15 Jan 2009Woods Loke Academy Primary School, Butley Drive, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 3EB
Received 16 Jun 2010Holbrook Primary School, The Street, Holbrook, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP9 2PZ
Received 12 Dec 2007Land off The Street Little Bealings Suffolk IP13 6LN
Received 20 Jul 2023Badwell Ash Primary School, The Street, Badwell Ash, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 3DG
Received 16 Dec 2010Burton End CP School, School Lane, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 9DE
Received 14 Jun 2010Proposed Fire Station Kesgrave, Main Road, Stutton, Ipswich
Received 18 Mar 2005Records 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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