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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Stowmarket Library, Milton Road North, Stowmarket, IP14 1EX.
Received 21 Jan 2025King Edward VIth Upper School, Grove Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 8 May 2006Exning Primary School, Oxford Street, Exning, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7EW
Received 14 Jul 2006Uplands Farm, Rattlesden, Suffolk
Received 31 Jul 2003Masons Landfill Site, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 5 Dec 2012Brockley Wood Quarry, Land off A12, Belstead, Suffolk, IP8 3JS.
Received 23 Sept 2025Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ
Received 6 Oct 2004Solar Farm, Brickwork Lane, Gisleham, NR33 8DR
Received 15 Sept 2025Deben High Scool, Garrison Lane, Felixstowe, Suffolk
Received 3 Mar 2003Tattingstone Primary School, Tattingstone, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 2 Jul 2007Needham Market Youth Club, School Street, Stoke by Nayland
Received 13 Sept 2004Felixstowe Academy (Orwell High School), Maidstone Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9EF
Received 13 Jan 2010Maltings Farm Bridge, Great Wratting, suffolk, CB9 7HQ
Received 30 Aug 2013Lowestoft Sixth Form College, Rotterdam Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 2NB
Received 17 Nov 2010Holton St Peter Primary School, Bungay Road, Holton, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8PL
Received 4 Mar 2013Bolton Bros Ltd, Bramford Road, Great Blakenham, IP6 0SL
Received 27 Feb 2014C & W Plastic Mouldings, Church Street, Saxmundhamn, Sudbury, Suffolk
Received 18 Sept 2006Lowestoft Water Recycling Centre, Rackhams Corner, Corton, Suffolk, NR32 5LE
Received 31 Jan 2017Biffa Waste Services, Paper Mill Lane, Bramford, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 5 Aug 2000Old Warren House, Warren Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 4QD
Received 29 Jan 2007Henham Quarry, Henham, Suffolk, NR34 8AN
Received 29 Nov 2017Stradbroke High School, Wilby Road, Stradbroke, Eye, Suffolk
Received 14 Jul 1999St Marys C of E Primary School, North Terrace, Mildenhall, IP28 7AB
Received 19 Jan 2009Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station
Received 9 Dec 2022Records 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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