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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Crosswinds and No 1 Somerset Cottage Holbeach St Marks
Received 6 Jul 2007Seagate Hall Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 1999Existing nursery adjacent to Woodlands Cottage Boston Road Gosberton, Spalding
Received 21 Jul 1993Moulton Seas End Playing Field Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding
Received 6 Sept 200012 FRANCIS STREET SPALDING PE11 1AT
Received 30 Dec 2024Land off Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 Jun 20241 STONEHOUSE COTTAGE MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3DJ
Received 6 May 2025192 and 194 Barrier Bank Cowbit PE12 6AL
Received 10 Mar 2008Manor Farm & Top Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Sept 199944 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Mar 2000North of The Oaks 251 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 12 Jun 201946 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 30 Jun 200880 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 2007Adjacent: 74 Fleet Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LD
Received 8 Dec 2016Camel Gate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 31 Jan 2000Rear of 79 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 1JQ
Received 18 Sept 202656 High Street Holbeach
Received 25 Jan 2006JIGGLES HOUSE JEKILS BANK MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0SY
Received 29 May 2019Broadgate Road Sutton St James
Received 11 Nov 2005Wyvale Garden Centres Ltd, Crowland Caravans And Camping Postland Road Crowland Spalding PE6 0JB
Received 16 Sept 2022Hazelwood Grange Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 11 Jan 202216 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Feb 1996High Road Weston
Received 10 Jun 200314 Market Place Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 1SL
Received 26 Jan 2023Records 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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