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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
35,106 approved · 4,207 refused · 1,269 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Bridge Inn The Common Crowland PE6 0HJ
Received 16 Feb 1994Land At Lowgate Fleet Bank Spalding
Received 30 Jun 202145 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EG
Received 3 Aug 2007Land West of Browns Yard Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 14 Oct 2025Cranesgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 1999PENTLAND HOUSE CHAPEL DROVE HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0PT
Received 23 Jan 202584 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5RD
Received 14 Aug 200612 Chancery Court Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 199726 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jan 199422 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LU
Received 9 Mar 20108 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Feb 200076 CHURCH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LL
Received 18 Aug 2017Barn View Hospital Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9YR
Received 13 Oct 202531 London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TE
Received 23 Mar 2007Land adj 77 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 28 Mar 20232a Westlode Street Spalding
Received 3 Aug 200429 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BX
Received 4 Jun 2007Port Sutton Bridge West Bank Sutton Bridge
Received 25 Jul 2002Plot 1 - off Maple Way Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4XL
Received 18 Jan 202498 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NA
Received 11 Feb 2020COWLEY ACADEMY SCHOOL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TF
Received 28 Mar 2025Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Sept 1999Goodales Lutton Gowts Lutton
Received 27 Dec 2006Land at 10A Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 2010Records 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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