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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Ballingdon Bridge, Ballingdon Street
Received 8 Oct 2000West Bank Terminal, Ipswich Port, ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8LY
Received 13 May 2014Great Blakenham Highway Depot, Lodge Lane, Great Blakenham
Received 20 Mar 2008Bargate Farm, Bargate Lane, West Row, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 8PS
Received 19 Jan 2012Northgate High School, Sidegate Lane West, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 28 Jun 2016Haverhill Waste Transfer Station Homefield Road Haverhill Suffolk CB9 8QP
Received 14 Sept 2023Northgate High School Sixth Form Centre, Sidegate Lane West, Ipswich, IP4 3DL
Received 16 Mar 2007Barton Mills Chalk Quarry, Herringswell Road, Barton Mills, Newmarket, Suffolk., IP28 6BN
Received 2 Jun 2016Plum Tree Pre-School at Barrow Primary School, Church Road, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 5AU
Received 6 Jul 2011Uplands Middle School, York Road, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 1NG
Received 11 Feb 2014Witnesham Primary School, High Road, Witnesham, Ipswich, IP6 9EX
Received 15 Feb 2002WALSHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL, WATTISFIELD ROAD, WALSHAM-LE-WILLOWS, IP31 3BD
Received 28 Feb 2013The Bridge School, Sprites Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 3ND
Received 20 Aug 2018The Bridge School, Sprites Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 3ND
Received 19 Aug 2015Bramford Primary School, Duckamere, Bramford, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 4AH
Received 7 Jun 2010Albert Pye Community Primary School, Fredericks Road, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9UL
Received 5 Jun 2009King Edward Iv High School, Grove Road
Received 5 Aug 2001Stowupland High School, Church Road, Stowupland, Suffolk, IP14 4BQ
Received 5 Jan 2015Edgar Sewter County Primary School, Norwich Road, Halesworth, Suffolk
Received 5 May 2011Great Blakenham Highways Depot, Lodge Lane, Great Blakenham, Ipswich
Received 24 Jun 2003Mellis Primary School, Earlsford Road, Mellis, Eye, Suffolk
Received 14 Sept 2010Badwell Ash Primary School, The Street, Badwell Ash, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 3DG
Received 29 Aug 2001Sir Peter Hall School Airfield Road Bury St Edmunds IP32 7BY
Received 22 Sept 2021Westgate Whirlybirds and Phoenix Playgroup, Brooklands Close, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3JX
Received 5 Sept 2016Records 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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