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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Chilton Grove, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 22 Oct 1999Wangford Quarry, Hill Road, Wangford, NR34 8AR
Received 5 Mar 2009Beck Row Primary School, The Street, Beck Row, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8AE
Received 28 May 2002The Bridge School, Sprites Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 3ND
Received 21 Jan 2015Bolton Bros Waste Recycling Facility, Bramford Road/Addison Road, Great Blakenham, IP6 0NP
Received 28 Oct 2013Heather House Main Road Martlesham Heath Ipswich IP5 3QX
Received 28 Mar 2023Step Forward Industries, 8, Harvest Drive, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 13 Mar 2007Tudor Primary School, Tudor Road, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 29 Oct 2008Bures Primary, Nayland Road, Bures, Suffolk
Received 14 Jul 2015Poplar Farm, Tannington Road, Worlingworth, Suffolk, IP13 7LR.
Received 29 Nov 2023All Saints Academy Primary School, Framlingham Road, Laxfield, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 8HD
Received 15 Aug 2008HARTEST PRIMARY SCHOOL, THE ROW, HARTEST, IP29 4DL
Received 19 Nov 2009Sir Robert Hitcham's Primary School, School Corner, Debenham, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 6PL
Received 19 Jul 2007Cherry Blossom Childrens Centre, East Bergholt Primary School, School Lane, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk, CO7 6SW
Received 6 Oct 2009Pumping Station A Land off Holly Lane Belstead IP8 3LZ
Received 1 Sept 2023Theberton Clay Pit, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 18 Feb 2002Parkside School, Spring Road
Received 10 Aug 2004Lakenheath Primary School, Mill Road, Lakenheath, Brandon, Suffolk, IP27 9DU
Received 18 Mar 2014Pakefield High School, Kilbourn Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk., NR33 7DS
Received 6 Oct 2014Laureate Primary School, Exning Road, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 0AN
Received 6 Oct 2011St Felix Primary School, School Lane, Bawdsey, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Received 29 Oct 2001Cedars Park Community Primary School, Pintail Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5FP
Received 29 Aug 2013Flixton Hall Farm Quarry, Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk
Received 7 Nov 2007Great Blakenham Energy from Waste Site, Lodge Lane, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0JE
Received 19 Jan 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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