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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5,124 approved · 42 refused · 195 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Farlingaye High School, Ransom Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Received 14 Jan 2005Symonds Farm, Newmarket Road, Risby, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 2 Jun 2014Walpole Learning Centre, Cookley Road, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 9AT
Received 17 Feb 2016Gisleham Brick & Pipeworks, Brickworks lane, Gisleham, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Received 21 Apr 2005Woodhall Primary School, Mayflower Road, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 1ST
Received 20 Sept 2011Combs Ford Primary School, Glemsford Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 2PN
Received 30 Sept 2003Earl Soham Primary School, The Street, Earl Soham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 7SA
Received 6 Sept 2010West Bank Terminal, Ipswich Port, ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8LY
Received 18 Jul 2013Debtrac Centre Ipswich Road Needham Market Suffolk IP6 8DJ
Received 21 Jan 2021V.C Cooke Materials Recycling Facility Beccles Recycling Centre Benacre Road Ellough Suffolk NR34 7TQ
Received 25 Nov 2022North Farm, Barnham Borrow Pit
Received 11 Jan 2013Gallows Hill Quarry Ipswich Road Baylham Suffolk IP6 0PF
Received 7 Dec 2023Sudbury Library, Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2EN
Received 26 Feb 2003Bury St Edmunds Household Waste Recycling Centre, Rougham Hill, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 2RW
Received 1 Sept 2016St Pancras Primary School, Stratford Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
Received 17 Mar 2015Great Cornard Library, Head Lane, C010 OJU
Received 10 Oct 2007School Cottage, Cutbush, Wickhambrook, CB8 8XN
Received 20 Jun 2008Laurel Farm St. James South Elmham Halesworth IP19 0HL
Received 17 May 2021Harpers Hill Farm, Harpers Hill, Nayland with Wissington, Colchester, C06 4NT
Received 31 Jan 2001Land at the Denham Estate, Barrow Road, Denham, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Received 14 Nov 2008Eriswell Sewage Treatment Works, Land of B1112, Eriswell Suffolk
Received 16 Jul 2004Pakefield High School, London Road Pakefield, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 7AQ
Received 6 May 2015Bramford to Twinstead
Received 11 Feb 2026Bosmere Primary School (Childrens Centre), 33, Quinton Road, Needham Market, IP6 8DA
Received 29 Jan 2010Records 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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