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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Received 1 Mar 1995The Chalet, Main Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 1999Heron Orchard Holiday Home Park Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8SR
Received 14 Jul 2010Plot 2, Cross Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 199712 CHAUCERS WAY SPALDING PE11 1LH
Received 29 Apr 201915 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 1997Land off Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 201970 Wrights Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 2002Old Health Care Centre Allenbys Chase Sutton Bridge
Received 7 Jun 2006Roman Bank Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 199933 London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TE
Received 24 Feb 1999SEAS END HALL HALL LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LB
Received 21 Feb 20251 Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3DX
Received 28 Feb 2000Starbucks Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 31 Mar 2021Plot on Poplar Drive (Rear of 45 High Street) Gosberton Spalding PE11 4LY
Received 8 Sept 201032 WEST STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BN
Received 12 Jun 202312 Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4TL
Received 29 Aug 2024ELMHURST 58 DOG DROVE NORTH HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SA
Received 5 Nov 2025152A Pennygate Spalding
Received 15 Mar 20064 New Road Spalding PE11 1PS
Received 6 Dec 2013Olde Smithy House 14 Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NN
Received 23 Mar 2006Adj. to 28 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Nov 2018We Buy Any Car Pod Holland Market Winfrey Avenue Spalding PE11 1RQ
Received 26 Sept 2023Crowson Motors Ltd Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 12 Mar 2008Records 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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