Understanding planning · 13 min read
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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land off Hurdle Drove, Beck Row, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8RB.
Received 3 Jul 2026Countryside Recycling Ltd, Parham Recycling Centre, Parham, Suffolk, IP13 9AF
Received 8 Mar 2012Nacton Primary School, The Street, Stonham Aspal, Stowmarket, Suffolk
Received 19 Apr 2001Proposed Waste Transfer Station, Lytham Road Ransomes Europark, ipswich, Suffolk
Received 30 Aug 2013Nayland Primary School, Bear Street, Nayland
Received 14 Oct 2003Bungay High School Queens Road Bungay NR35 1RW
Received 28 May 2021Shepherds Grove Industrial Estate, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 6 Mar 2006The Kingsfield Centre, Chilton Way, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1SZ
Received 11 Feb 2009Samuel Ward Upper School, Chalkstone Way, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0LD
Received 10 Jan 2003College Heath Primary School, Girton Close
Received 18 Dec 2000Worlington Quarry, Worlington
Received 4 Dec 2009Lafarge Aggregated Ltd Lower Cresent, Pesthouse Lane, Barham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0PF
Received 27 Jan 2015St Mark's Primary School, Stone Lodge Lane West, Ipswich, IP2 9HN
Received 28 Jun 2006Acton Primary School, Lambert Drive, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 10 Dec 2008East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm
Received 9 Dec 2025Hartest Primary School, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 4DL
Received 6 Mar 2007St Margaret's House, Gordon Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 9 Dec 2000Chantry Primary School, Aster Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 4 Mar 2005Place Farm Primary School, Camps Road, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8HF
Received 1 Dec 2009Bramford to Twinstead
Received 24 Feb 2026Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station and Associated Development Sites
Received 20 May 2026Old Newton Primary School, Church Road, Blundeston, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 5AX
Received 30 Mar 2006Birchwood Primary School, Valiant Road, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 3SP
Received 4 Jul 2011Thomas Mills High School, Saxtead Road, Framlingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Received 13 Oct 2003Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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