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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Home Farm Wykeham Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 1995Middlemoor Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine
Received 5 Nov 20071 PARSONAGE LANE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE12 0JA
Received 10 Sept 2015Halifax Farm Quadring Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 4LQ
Received 23 Apr 2013100 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NA
Received 30 Mar 2021Land at Orchard House Bourne Road West Pinchbeck PE11 3NQ
Received 28 Oct 2005Lutton Bank Lutton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 2012Land adj Manor Farm Broadgate Sutton St James
Received 4 Nov 200259 - 61 Broadway Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BH
Received 5 Apr 2001Land north/south Barrier Bank (B1173) and north west A1175/A16 on the southern edge
Received 27 Oct 2017Parish of West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Sept 2012The Old Rectory Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QL
Received 21 Mar 2006Off Chapel Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 199655 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QF
Received 29 Jul 2010Land Adj. Wisteria House West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding, Lincs PE12 0PN
Received 8 Oct 1991Land off Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 10 Mar 20062 Bloodfold Cottage Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 24 Oct 1991Avenue Farm 115 Broadgate Whaplode Drove PE12 0TW
Received 12 Feb 2007350/352 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Sept 199265 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6HY
Received 10 Oct 2024Adj. Bungalow Gas House Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 9 Aug 200163 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 1997Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 22 Jun 2017The Priory Special School Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Aug 1997Records 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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