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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Received 21 Nov 2003The Chase, High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 1995Vine Cottage Main Road Gedney
Received 6 Feb 200444 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NN
Received 9 Feb 201115 Wedgewood Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 200865 PARK AVENUE SPALDING PE11 1QX
Received 15 Jan 2019Opposite 34 Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RQ
Received 11 Apr 20123 The Beeches Beechfield Gardens Spalding PE11 1UE
Received 18 May 20228 Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Dec 2001Site to south west of Spalding with access from The Broadway to the north and B1172 to the south Spalding
Received 9 May 20144 RICHARD BUSBY WAY LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9PT
Received 25 Jun 20213 Counter Drain Tongue End Spalding Lincs PE11 2XE
Received 19 Dec 20128 Old Fendike Road Weston Hills Spalding
Received 27 May 2003Land at The Orchards Blazegate Gedney Spalding PE12 0AD
Received 10 Aug 2022131 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UE
Received 13 Aug 2020Green Dyke Farm Green Dyke Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech, Cambs. PE13 5QX
Received 28 Nov 20038 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 1994The Angel Inn 34/35 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Apr 199329 Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AF
Received 3 Jan 2017Palmetto Northgate West Pinchbeck
Received 4 Dec 2008Land off Drain Bank North Spalding
Received 26 Feb 2016Former British Legion Club Chapel Street Crowland Spalding PE6 0AR
Received 13 Nov 2023GLEBE FARM PARSONAGE LANE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE12 0JA
Received 20 Apr 20175 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 2 Mar 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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