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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Claydon High School & Sixth Form Centre, Church Lane, Claydon, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0EG
Received 18 Apr 2001Hadleigh Community Primary School, Station Road, Hadleigh, Suffolk, IP7 5HQ
Received 7 Sept 2015Fire Station, Barking Road, Needham Market, IP6 8ET
Received 14 Apr 2010Needham Chalks Ltd, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8EL
Received 17 Jun 2011Masons Quarry, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 28 Sept 2004Sir Robert Hitchams Primary School, College Road, Framlingham, Suffolk, IP13 9EP
Received 27 Jul 2015Foxburrow Farm, Ipswich Road, Brightwell, Suffolk, IP10 0BZ
Received 22 May 2017King Edward VI Upper School, Grove Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3BH
Received 11 Jan 2016Lowestoft Northern Spine Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 11 May 2015Oulton Broad Primary School (Land Adjacent to Church Lane) Church Lane Oulton Broad NR32 3JX
Received 23 Mar 2022Honington Primary School, Malting Row, Honington, Suffolk, IP31 1RE
Received 30 Aug 2001Hartest Priamry School, The Row, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 4DL
Received 2 Aug 2010East Bergholt Primary School, School Lane, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk, CO7 6SW
Received 18 Mar 2008Foxhall Landfill Site, Foxhall Road, Brightwell, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP10 0HT
Received 28 Feb 2002Cliff Quay Water Recycling Centre, Raeburn Road South, Ipswich IP3 0ET
Received 17 Jul 2023(Boxford Suffolk Farms) Hill Farm, Brick Kiln Hill, Boxford, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 5NY
Received 13 Oct 2017Murrayfield Primary School, Nacton Road, Ipswich
Received 27 Aug 2013PoplarsAcademy CP School, St Margarets Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 4HN
Received 30 Sept 2008Orwell High School, Maidstone Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk
Received 23 Jun 2009Bramford to Twinstead
Received 17 Apr 2026Lavenham Water recycling Centre, Brent Eleigh Road, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 9PE
Received 16 May 2016Bramford to Twinstead
Received 15 Sept 2026Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Received 5 Oct 2011Hadleigh Primary School, Station Road, Hadleigh, Suffolk
Received 14 Feb 2000Records 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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