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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Hadleigh CP School Station Road Hadleigh Ipswich IP7 5HQ
Received 8 Mar 2022Suffolk One, Scrivener Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 27 Feb 2014Shrubland Quarry, Old Norwich Road, Coddenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 9QW
Received 3 Oct 2005Biffa Waste Services, Paper Mill Lane, Bramford, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 12 Jan 2010Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ
Received 16 Jan 2018Beccles Southern End Relief Road Between A145 London Road and, B1127 Ellough Road, Beccles, Suffolk
Received 14 Sept 2018Ransomes Euro Park, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 26 Feb 2003Wattisham Nursery,Site Adjacent to, 1, Valley Road, Wattisham Airfield, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7B 7RE
Received 26 Jul 2010Ford House, Raingate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2AR
Received 6 Jul 2015Hollow Road Farm Waste Transfer Station, Fornham St Martin, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 26 Oct 2000Kesgrave High School, Main Road, Kesgrave, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 2PB
Received 18 Jun 2010Busy Bee Pre-School at Castle Hill Infants School, Dryden Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 6QF
Received 22 Jun 2010Hadleigh Health Centre, Market Place, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 19 Feb 2008Stowmarket High School, Onehouse Road, Stowmarket, IP14 1QR
Received 11 Sept 2026Mellis Primary School, Yaxley Road, Mellis, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 8DY
Received 2 Jun 2003Bramford to Twinstead
Received 25 Aug 2026A12 between Junctions 58 (Seven Hills) and Woods Lane Roundabout, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Received 17 Nov 2025Pannington Hall Farm, Pannington Hall Lane, Wherstead, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP9 2AR
Received 8 Jul 2009Wetheringsett Primary School, Wetheringsett, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5PJ
Received 18 Nov 2010Riverwalk School, Mayfield Road, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2PD
Received 13 Jan 2026Sir Robert Hitcham's Primary School, School Corner, Debenham, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 6PL
Received 29 Apr 2013Henham Quarry, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 30 Jul 1999Cavenham Heath Quarry, Tuddenham Road, Cavenham, Suffolk, IP28 6SE.
Received 28 Jan 2026King Edward VIth Upper School, Grove Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 25 Mar 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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