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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Barking, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ
Received 3 Apr 2014Lindbergh Road, Ipswich, IP3 9PZ
Received 22 Nov 2013Debtrac Centre, Ipswich Road, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8DJ
Received 16 Jan 2018New Clements Primary School, Greenfields Way, Puddlebrook Playingfields, Haverhill, Suffolk
Received 16 Jun 2011Blackbourne Middle School, Upthorpe Road, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 2AW
Received 6 May 2001Place Farm Primary School, Camps Road, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8HF
Received 22 Sept 1999Haverhill Waste Transfer Station Homefield Road Haverhill CB9 8QP
Received 30 Jan 2026Stepping Stones Pre-School, Rear of Exning Primary School, Oxford Street, Exning, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7EW
Received 30 Jun 2017Coney Weston STW, Fen Street, Coney Weston, Suffolk
Received 30 Oct 2013Eyke Primary School, The Street, Stonham Aspal, Stowmarket, Suffolk
Received 13 Aug 2007Stradbroke Road Fire Station, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 29 Jul 2008St Mary's Primary School, Kirkley Cliff Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0DG
Received 24 Jul 2017Gipping Road, Gipping Road
Received 4 Feb 2002Stowupland High School Church Road Stowupland Stowmarket IP14 4BQ
Received 6 Dec 2020Rendlesham Community Primary School, Sycamore Drive, Rendlesham, Suffolk, IP12 2GF
Received 27 Jan 2015Ringsfield Primary School, School Road, Ringsfield, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 8NZ
Received 6 Mar 2006Foxhall Household Waste Recycling Centre Foxhall Road Ipswich Suffolk IP10 0HT
Received 30 Oct 2019Otley Primary School, Chapel Road, Otley
Received 17 Dec 2002Moulton CEVC Primary School School Road Moulton Newmarket CB8 8PR
Received 19 Jan 2023Pakefield High School, Kilbourn Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk., NR33 7DS
Received 6 Sept 2012Foxhall Waste Transfer Station, Foxhall Road, Brightwell, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP10 0HT
Received 21 Nov 2003HUNDON PRIMARY SCHOOL, NORTH STREET, HUNDON, CO10 8EE
Received 19 Aug 2011Fornham Sewage Treatment Works, Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6JH
Received 22 Mar 2011Great Cornard Upper School, Head Lane, Great Cornard, CO10 0JU
Received 30 Jul 2009Records 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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