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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Britannia Primary School, Britannia Road, Ipswich
Received 28 Jul 2015Masons Landfill Site, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 30 Mar 2010St Louis Middle School, St Andrews Street South, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 28 Jan 2005Coldfair Green Primary School, Judith Avenue, Knodishall
Received 12 Oct 2009Belstead Special School, Sprites Lane
Received 21 Mar 2002Henley Primary School, Ashbocking Road
Received 2 Mar 2003Cliff Quay, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 17 Dec 2008Burton End Water Tower, Haverhill, Suffolk
Received 7 May 2004Barton Mills Chalk Quarry, Herringswell Road, Barton Mills, Newmarket, Suffolk., IP28 6BN
Received 27 Aug 2015All Saints Primary School, The Street, Lawshall, Suffolk, IP29 4QA
Received 5 May 2015Masons Landfill Site, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 7 Sept 2010The Cangle Primary School, Chapple Drive, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0DU
Received 17 Feb 2009Great Blakenham Energy from Waste Site, Lodge Lane, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0JE
Received 20 Sept 2011Gisleham Brick & Pipe Works, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 16 May 2002Barrow Primary School, Colethorpe Lane, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 5AU
Received 26 Feb 2001Rougham Airfield, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 2QX
Received 18 Aug 2016East Bergholt Primary School, School Lane, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk, CO7 6SW
Received 9 Mar 2004East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm
Received 26 Nov 2025Northgate High School, Sidegate Lane West, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 3DL
Received 30 Sept 2003Tattingstone Landfill Site, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 10 Jul 2002127, Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1BB
Received 16 Nov 2011Fairfield Primary School, High Road West, Felixstowe, Suffolk
Received 25 Aug 2005The Denes High School, Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 4AH
Received 15 Jun 2011Blundeston Primary School, Church Road, Blundeston, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 5AX
Received 16 Jul 2010Records 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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