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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
29,246 approved · 3,700 refused · 1,058 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Penny Hill Road Holbeach
Received 19 Feb 20182A BELL LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PQ
Received 16 Jul 2024Phase 10 Wygate Park Land off Wintergold Avenue Spalding
Received 6 Jul 2004The Fresh Snack Co Quadring Road Gosberton
Received 17 Jun 2002Bank House Bank House Farm Common Road Moulton Seas End
Received 14 Apr 2004Kendall Grove Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 5AT
Received 29 Jan 2026The Gables Camel Gate Spalding
Received 5 Jun 2008Land at Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 2011Lutton Garnsgate Road Lutton Garnsgate Gedney
Received 16 Aug 2005THE OLD FARMHOUSE MONEY BRIDGE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QB
Received 28 Feb 2023Heron Cottage Camping and Caravanning Frostley Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 11 Dec 2019The Moorings Common Road Throckenholt Spalding Lincs PE12 0RA
Received 27 Mar 2006Holbeach Primary School Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 200136 East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 7 Jul 2004Spalding Friends Meeting House Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AE
Received 11 Aug 2011The Mermaid Inn 2 Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 30 Jan 202520 COUNTER DRAIN DROVE TONGUE END SPALDING PE11 3JJ
Received 12 Nov 2021Sandygate Farmhouse Sandygate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HG
Received 4 Jun 20207 Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XF
Received 27 Feb 2008Plot Off The Beeches Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jul 1999Tydd Road (Part Field No. 7727) Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Oct 19991 Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EG
Received 9 Dec 2013Walnut Tree Field Coalbeach Lane Surfleet Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 12 Apr 2000Land rear of Saracens Head PH Saracens Head
Received 22 Apr 2002Records 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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