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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Saxmundham Middle School, Seaman Avenue, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Received 10 Apr 2001Somerleyton Primary School, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 21 Mar 2005Clare Castle Country Park, Malting Lane
Received 3 Apr 2004Land to East of Lignacite Works Norfolk House, High Street, Brandon, IP27 0AX
Received 4 Jan 2016Heathside School, Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5SN
Received 26 Jun 2000Somersham Primary School, Church Lane, Somersham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 4PN
Received 2 Aug 2017Sizewell A Power Station, Sizewell Power Station Road, Sizewell, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4UE.
Received 30 Sept 2022St Joseph's Primary School, Beaconsfield Road, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 16 Jul 2014Blood Hill Closed landfill Site, Somersham Road, Bramford, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP8 4NN-
Received 21 Apr 2010Woods Loke Academy Primary School, Butley Drive, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 3EB
Received 12 Nov 2010Beck Row Primary School, The Street, Beck Row, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8AE
Received 15 Nov 2010Energy Recovery Facility land at V C Cooke's Waste Management Site Ellough Road Beccles NR34 7TQ
Received 24 Aug 2022Burgess House, 236, Felixstowe Road
Received 16 Sept 2003Albert Pye Primary School, Fredericks Road, Beccles, Suffolk
Received 22 Feb 2008Glemsford Primary School, Lion Road, Glemsford, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 7RF
Received 11 Jan 2001Haverhill Waste Management Site, Falconer Road, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8QE
Received 14 Feb 2025Northgate High School, Sidegate Lane West, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 3DL
Received 11 Jul 2005Land at The Folly Ingham Culford Bury St Edmunds IP28 6TY
Received 4 Nov 2020Thomas Mills High School Academy, Saxtead Road, Framlingham, IP13 9HE
Received 7 Oct 2010Parham Waste Transfer Station, Tamar Organics, Parham, Suffolk, IP13 9AF
Received 21 Jun 2013Stradbroke Library, Court House, Queen Street, Stradbroke, Suffolk, IP21 5HG
Received 27 Nov 2012Foxhall Waste Transfer Station Foxhall Landfill Site Foxhall Road IP10 0BG
Received 12 Jun 2020B And B Skips Limited, Beccles Business Park, Anson Way, Worlingham, NR34 7TJ.
Received 20 Aug 2021Edgar Sewter County Primary School, Norwich Road, Halesworth, Suffolk
Received 11 Sept 2004Records 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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