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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Tudor House Therapeutic School Dorcette House Little Lane Whaplode PE12 6RU
Received 25 Apr 2025Wimberley Hall Farm Stonegate Weston Spalding PE12 6HR
Received 14 Nov 2011Former Health Care Centre Allenby Chase Sutton Bridge
Received 13 Jul 2005FERN VILLA 40 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RB
Received 15 Jan 2018Newholme Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs, PE12 0PX
Received 9 Oct 199258 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YA
Received 14 Feb 2014West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 15 Sept 2003The Peele School 84 Little London Long Sutton
Received 18 Mar 2003Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 2004Kingfisher Small Drove Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NL
Received 29 Aug 2019111 WILLOW COURT COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6GF
Received 19 Jun 2026Puddingpoke Lane Lutton
Received 21 Nov 200240 Rotten Row Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RH
Received 7 Nov 199154 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 2000Girdlestone Walk SPS Adjacent 60 Postland Road Crowland PE6 0AF
Received 11 Aug 199238 Church Street Pinchbeck
Received 13 Sept 2001Cobwebs Hundred Fen Gosberton Clough
Received 19 Apr 2002321 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 200566 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 16 Nov 202098 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 2003FENLAND MANOR JEKILS BANK HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RQ
Received 16 Feb 2022Langtoft Hurdletree Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QQ
Received 9 Mar 2004Decoy Farm Postland Crowland Peterborough
Received 28 Apr 1993Pepper Farm Tongue End Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 2004Records 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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