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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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: 26 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Rear 26 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 15 Aug 2006101 CARRINGTON ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LS
Received 16 Mar 2015Land to north of Siltside Gosberton Risegate Formerly part of old O.S. No. 1048
Received 7 Apr 200029 Chapel Street Crowland PE6 0AR
Received 8 Oct 2012Commercial Road Spalding
Received 21 Dec 2007IMPALLARCOM HOUSE STONEGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BY
Received 16 Nov 2020Land between 2 and 14 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 15 Dec 201160 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 22 Jun 20067 Redmile Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UT
Received 7 Sept 2001126 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ST
Received 8 May 201229A HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1TX
Received 17 Sept 2020Cowpers Gate (South) Station Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AY
Received 14 Oct 202414 Mariette Way Spalding PE11 1DT
Received 12 Sept 201528 Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 1994Gedney Hill Garage 26 Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 6 May 2003HEADING HOUSE 56 MOLE DROVE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PA
Received 26 Feb 2019Winsover Centre (Unit 4) Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Apr 1996Rear of Springway Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6UE
Received 10 May 2024Westgate, (adj. Yew's Yard) Moulton Chapel
Received 13 Nov 2001Off Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 199566 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UA
Received 10 May 199311 CLOUGH ROAD HOLBEACH CLOUGH SPALDING PE12 8BW
Received 29 Apr 2021Welland House Cradge Bank Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3AN
Received 19 Aug 1998The Old Station House Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 10 Mar 2003Records 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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