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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Land off Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 May 2024Glenfield House Ropers Gate Gedney
Received 31 Jan 200326 Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 2001Former Regent Bingo Club Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AE
Received 14 Jul 2026109 Little London Long Sutton
Received 7 Jun 2004The Hollies 47B Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RH
Received 7 Aug 2012Moulton Park High Road Moulton Spalding PE12 6PD
Received 14 Feb 2025St Johns Care Home 66 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 1JQ
Received 9 May 2012Barn at land adjacent: Westmere Farm New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QD
Received 12 Dec 2019The Old Garage, Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 199712 MERIDIAN WALK HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NR
Received 20 Feb 2014SILVERWOOD COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY WISBECH PE13 5QH
Received 24 May 202411 Bakestraw Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QQ
Received 14 Nov 200812 Carlton Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2UP
Received 20 Nov 200166 Woodlands Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jun 2010Land adjacent Honeypot Cottage Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SA
Received 4 Nov 200912 AINTREE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3BS
Received 5 Jan 2018Rear of 16 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JF
Received 4 Nov 20217 GODIVA CLOSE CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0NL
Received 9 Dec 2020HOLMHURST 24 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 24 Aug 2016Half Acre West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PL
Received 5 Apr 200416 Stowgate Deeping St James Peterborough
Received 13 Nov 1992Flaxmill Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Feb 1998Land off St Margaret's Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Mar 2017Records 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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