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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 · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Slane Lodge 59 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 6 Jan 2005HOSPITAL FARM MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3DH
Received 27 Jan 2020Kingsgate Gedney Black Lion Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 19928 CROSS STREET FLEET SPALDING PE12 7BD
Received 29 Nov 2018Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Dec 1993Land North East of Red House Farm Wykes Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4SE
Received 9 Sept 202610 Market Place Spalding
Received 14 Oct 2005146 FIELDS FARM BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SN
Received 26 May 202082 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Feb 19981 Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland PE6 0LX
Received 27 Mar 2012West View Broadgate/off Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Nov 1993TY DDEWI 40 HELMSLEY WAY SPALDING PE12 6BG
Received 8 Jan 2021Herring Lane Car Park Herring Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 2011Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1999Plot 66, Wygate Park (Phase 2) Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 199730 Holland Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1UL
Received 23 Dec 2013Land at Walpole Substation Walpole Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 20099 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 25 Sept 2026242 Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 2002THE FUN FARM HIGH ROAD WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JU
Received 10 Dec 2015Land Adjacent 70 Station Road Long Sutton
Received 30 Aug 2006Onslow Farm Gedney Drove End
Received 17 Jan 2007Crosslane Farm Cross Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SN
Received 21 Mar 201199 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Sept 1995Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District 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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