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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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127 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 2006325 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 2002Anfield Barn Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck
Received 5 Jan 2004Land at the Junction of Wardentree Lane/ Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 18 May 2021Beech House West Cobgate Moulton
Received 29 Apr 2005Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9NW
Received 21 Oct 1991222 Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 2 Mar 200531 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 30 Jan 2004Adjacent 10 Cley Hall Drive Spalding
Received 27 Jun 2005West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 1992Land to west of Woolram Wygate, known as Wygate Park, Phase 6 (Plot 9) Spalding
Received 19 Sept 1996Camel Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 1994Westview Farm Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 6LW
Received 10 Sept 200920 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 6 Dec 2002Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 4 Apr 2023Baytree Garden Centre High Road Weston
Received 17 Sept 2004Sutton Bridge Community Centre Memorial Park 51 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9SA
Received 3 Feb 2012R Bratley (Quadring) Ltd Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 2001156 BATTLEFIELDS LANE NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PF
Received 13 Nov 2023Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1DA
Received 22 Jan 2026MUNRO MEDICAL CENTRE WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BY
Received 12 Dec 2017VICTORIA COTTAGE STOCKWELL GATE NORTH WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6WH
Received 21 Feb 202019 COUNTER DRAIN DROVE TONGUE END SPALDING PE11 3JJ
Received 27 Aug 2021OS 1467 Adj. Horseshoe Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 1992Records 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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