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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Tudor CEVCP School, Tudor Road, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 1NL
Received 31 Aug 2011Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ_
Received 6 Jan 2017Heath Primary School, Bell Lane, Kesgrave, IP5 1JG
Received 23 Aug 2012Wells Hall Primary School, Wells Hall Road, Great Cornard, Sudbury, CO10 0NH
Received 21 Jul 2015Eye Airfield Roundabouts, Land East of A140, Rectory Road, Eye
Received 6 Jun 2018The Limes Primary School, Lime Avenue, Oulton, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 3QG
Received 21 Jul 2017Great Blakenham WTS, Stowmarket Road, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0LX
Received 20 Jan 2009Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ_
Received 6 Jan 2017Hadleigh Fire Station, Aldham Mill Hill, Hadleigh, Suffolk
Received 13 Nov 2006Oulton Broad Primary School, Christmas Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 3JX
Received 9 Dec 2002St Margaret's Primary School, Bolton Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2BT
Received 24 May 2016Paddocks Primary School, Rochfort Avenue, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 0DL
Received 18 Mar 2008Worlington Quarry Bay Farm, Worlington, Suffolk, IP28 6BS
Received 26 Oct 2016Countryside - Rights of Way Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2BX
Received 5 May 2005Grange Lane, Kesgrave, Ipswich
Received 17 Nov 2009Birchwood Primary School, Valiant Road, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 23 Jun 2009Grove Primary School Academy, Framfield Road, Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 8RQ
Received 18 Mar 2008Harpers Hill Farm Harpers Hill Nayland With Wissington CO6 4NT
Received 3 Dec 2020214 Sidegate Lane, 214, Sidegate Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 22 Sept 2004Kingsfleet Primary School, Ferry Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9LY
Received 23 Apr 2010The Allotments, Ballingdon Street
Received 1 Mar 2003Chantry Academy, Mallard Way, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9LR.
Received 5 Jul 2022Sudbury Uplands Community Middle School, York Road, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 1NG
Received 26 Jan 2015St Christopher's Primary School, Bellflower Crescent, Red Lodge, Suffolk, IP28 8XQ
Received 9 Sept 2013Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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