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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Somerset Farm St Marks Road Holbeach PE12 8ED
Received 4 Feb 2014Craggs Cottage Clarks Hill Gedney
Received 12 Oct 2007Distillery Farmhouse Welbourne Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PY
Received 11 Aug 202170 MAIN ROAD QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PW
Received 15 May 2018Two Acre Barn Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5RE
Received 13 Jun 2005Holly Cottage 75 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 1JQ
Received 14 Jun 2017Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3YR
Received 16 Feb 2000Land off Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 20 Aug 1996Land adjoining Simba Lodge Bells Bridge Old Fendyke Holbeach St John PE12 8SH
Received 11 Aug 2010Land west of Woolram Wygate (Wygate Park - Phase 7) Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 1995Rear garden of 61 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1QF
Received 28 Jul 2015Land to Rear of Paw House Cobgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TD
Received 2 Nov 20217 River Lane Moulton Spalding
Received 15 May 1992288 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TG
Received 21 Aug 2008Land off Drain Bank North Spalding
Received 22 Jul 2015Rear of 15, 17 & 19 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DD
Received 15 Sept 2014Hub Building Cibus way Holbeach Spalding PE12 7FH
Received 25 Jan 202245 MOUNTBATTEN AVENUE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TP
Received 3 Jan 20235 Market Place Spalding PE11 1SL
Received 29 Mar 2016West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2BJ
Received 10 Feb 201456 HATT CLOSE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PY
Received 11 May 2023Adjacent 41 New Road Sutton Bridge
Received 15 Feb 2007Plot 5 No 29 Mill Drove Cowbit PE12 6AS
Received 29 Sept 2003Holbeach & Elloe Hospital Trust Boston Road North Holbeach Spalding PE12 8AQ
Received 30 Apr 2018Records 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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