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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 22 Nov 2000Colchester Road Fire Station, Colchester Road
Received 29 Mar 2005Thurlow Primary School, The Street, Little Thurlow, Suffolk
Received 25 Aug 2009Stepping Stones Pre-School, Rear of Exning Primary School, Oxford Street, Exning, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7EW
Received 2 Jun 2017St Pancras Primary School, Stratford Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 29 Feb 2012Reydon Primary School, Jermyns Road, Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk
Received 9 May 2005Cavendish Primary School, The Green, Cavendish, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 8BA
Received 7 Sept 2010Badwell Ash Quarry, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 14 Jul 1999Long Melford Primary School, Cordell Road, Long Melford, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 10 May 2007The Denes High School, Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 4AH
Received 12 May 2011Kedington Primary School, Church Walk, Kedington, Suffolk, CB9 7QY
Received 5 Oct 2009Tesco Stores Ltd, Springlands Way, CO10 1GY
Received 20 Jul 2009Grundisburgh Playgroup at Grundisburgh Primary School, Alice Driver Road, Grundisburgh
Received 25 Mar 2011Stour Valley Free School, Cavendish Road, Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 8PJ
Received 27 Jan 2009Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station and Associated Development Sites
Received 29 Nov 2024Springfield Infants School, 11, Wesley Way Bramford Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 11 Jul 2008Holton St Peter School Bungay Road Holton Suffolk IP19 8PL
Received 10 Aug 2022Albert Pye Community Primary School, Fredericks Road, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9UL
Received 2 Oct 2013Rushmere Hall Primary School, 20, Lanark Road, Ipswich, IP4 3EJ
Received 26 Jun 2013Felixstowe Fire Station, High Road West, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9JA
Received 18 Aug 2009Barham Quarry, Sandy Lane, Barham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0PB
Received 15 Aug 2023Whitehouse Junior School, Marlow Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5JN
Received 24 Mar 2009Fire Training Centre, Lodge Lane, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 13 Nov 2006Kirkley Childrens Centre Kirkley Street Lowestoft NR33 0LU
Received 13 Mar 2019Records 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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