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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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39 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AG
Received 27 Nov 2012EASTFIELDS 48 DOG DROVE NORTH HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SA
Received 9 Aug 2019Greenfields 23 Hillgate Gedney Hill
Received 23 Dec 2008R J WILSON ELECTRICAL WASHWAY ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LT
Received 21 Aug 2017Land adj 162 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 11 Mar 2002Silverwood Garden Centre St James Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton PE12 9AZ
Received 10 Mar 202615 Town Farm Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 19 Apr 2004Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QL
Received 12 Apr 2017Enterprise Food Park Enterprise Way Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Oct 1999Yellow Stocking Hall The Chase Crowland PE6 0DD
Received 11 Nov 201126 Northorpe Road Donington SPALDING PE11 4XU
Received 24 Apr 2016THE HORSESHOES BECK BANK GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JL
Received 11 Dec 2015Peggys Way Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4GB
Received 11 Nov 202472 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 29 Jul 202143 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1995144 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 25 Jan 20078A NORTH PARADE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AJ
Received 27 Sept 2018Adjacent The Sycamores 124 Chapelgate Sutton St James
Received 12 Nov 200868 Stone Gate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 27 Apr 202143 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 6 Jan 201721 WINDSOR AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AN
Received 27 Nov 2023Church Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LL
Received 1 Dec 2021Oakleigh House, High Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 199556 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JW
Received 30 Apr 2002Records 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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