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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Exning Primary School Oxford Street Exning CB8 7EW
Received 30 Nov 2020Beacon Hill Primary School, Black Tiles Lane
Received 22 Sept 1999Beaumont Primary School, Durrant Road
Received 23 Jul 2002Stone Lodge Water Tower, Stone Lodge Lane
Received 23 Apr 2004Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ_
Received 3 Aug 2009Claydon Skips Ltd Land and Buildings at, Masons Landfill Site, Great Blakenham, IP6 0JX
Received 9 Sept 2013Halesworth Middle School, Bungay Road, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8PY
Received 7 Jun 2006Landmark House, Whitehouse Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 3 May 2011Benhall Water Recycling Centre, Aldecar Lane, Benhall, IP17 1HN
Received 9 Feb 2026Capel St Mary Youth Club, The Street, Capel St Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 29 Jan 2001Hundon Primary School, North Street, Hundon, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 8EE
Received 22 Nov 2006Pannington Hall Estate, Wherstead
Received 16 Oct 2009Brockley Wood Land off A12 Belstead Suffolk IP8 3JS
Received 27 Sept 2022Step Forward Industries, 8, Harvest Drive, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 2 Apr 2008East Anglia ONE North Offshore Windfarm
Received 12 Mar 2025POT KILN CP SCHOOL, BUTT ROAD, GREAT CORNARD, CO10 0DS
Received 29 May 2012Great Waldingfield Primary School, Folly Road, Great Waldingfield, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 0RS
Received 22 Sept 2015Sidegate Primary School Sidegate Lane Ipswich IP4 4JD
Received 4 Feb 2021Gallows Hill Quarry, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 2 Jul 2009Sybil Andrews Academy Rougham Tower Avenue Rougham IP32 7QB
Received 13 May 2019Worlington Quarry, Bay Farm, Elms Road, Worlington, IP28 6BS, Suffolk
Received 19 Oct 2023St Botolph's Primary School, Back Hills, Botesdale, Diss, Suffolk, IP22 1DW
Received 7 Oct 2011Gisleham Brick & Pipeworks, Gisleham, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 11 Aug 2010St Benet'S Primary School, Ringsfield Road, Beccles
Received 7 Mar 2013Records 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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