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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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103 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 0XB
Received 28 Apr 200577 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs. PE12 0TN
Received 20 May 200314A BROAD LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PN
Received 14 Apr 2021Cresswell Close Benner Road Industrial Estate Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jul 1995Barrier Bank Road Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AE
Received 23 Dec 2014Frankies Cafe Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 1999Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 199422 Magellan Way Spalding Lincs PE11 2FG
Received 3 Sept 20014 St Marys Meadows Gedney Spalding PE12 0DL
Received 6 Aug 2010Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Sept 199311 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7BE
Received 16 Jan 201825 Broadway Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BJ
Received 15 Aug 2006Rear of 15, 17 & 19 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DD
Received 30 Jun 2020Former Argos Unit 4 Holland Market Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1RQ
Received 9 Jul 2025Land at Fen Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 14 Oct 2020Plot 1, Sutton Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Nov 1995268 Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 2001Adjacent: Lapwing 72 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 29 May 2018Bank House Residential Home Gosberton Bank Gosberton Spalding, Lincs
Received 12 Mar 1992200 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 2000Leaveslake Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QJ
Received 7 Sept 2012GARNSGATE HALL LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 8 Jun 20234 Chapel Lane Spalding
Received 3 Mar 2005Land behind 'Grenville' Nutts Lane Holbeach St Johns Spalding
Received 4 Feb 1998Records 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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