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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
34,225 approved · 4,122 refused · 1,243 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
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Rear of 50 New Road Sutton Bridge
Received 10 Sept 200161 Wignals Gate Holbeach
Received 5 Sept 20067 Reform Street Crowland PE6 0AN
Received 3 Dec 2002UNIVERSITY ACADEMY HOLBEACH PARK ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PU
Received 7 Dec 2022HIGHLANDS LEADENHALL ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EY
Received 14 Mar 2023Otway House Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jul 1998Gosberton House Care Home Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 25 Apr 2006101 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Feb 1999Lazy Acre Little Dog Drove Holbeach Spalding PE12 8RR
Received 23 Apr 2014Former Primary School Site Off Market Street/Bull Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 27 May 1997Pizza Building Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8HF
Received 16 Jun 2010Adjoining Yewtree House Churchway Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 27 Jul 1994Eastlyn Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XL
Received 15 Apr 202692 St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 1 Sept 2005RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE 34 HILLGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NN
Received 15 Sept 2015Willow Cottage Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PE
Received 30 Nov 2009Land Fronting Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding
Received 22 May 2000Willowdene Old Fen Lane Pinchbeck
Received 28 Jul 2003Pickwell House Hogs Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QH
Received 6 Aug 2010Brocklesby House 8 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NH
Received 5 Sept 2005Knights Cottage Broad Drove Gosberton Clough
Received 20 Feb 2004The Beeches 31 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 3 Mar 2005The Beeches Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding, Lincs PE12 6BZ
Received 7 Aug 200012 Westbourne Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2RF
Received 11 Jan 2007Records 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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