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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Charles Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9TA
Received 19 Jun 2009Rear 12 13 London Road Little London Spalding
Received 20 May 2005The Farm Restaurant Washway Road Fleet Hargate
Received 17 Nov 200346 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 1 Jul 202612-14 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 19959 Lilburn Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3NY
Received 18 May 200641 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs PE11 4DJ
Received 11 Oct 2018Plot 8 Chapel Gardens Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 1998The Sidings Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 199821 Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XF
Received 18 Mar 2004Off The Sidings (Plot 1) Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 200116 Washway Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PP
Received 23 Nov 2016103 Dog Drove North Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SA
Received 2 Aug 2007Land off Penny Hill Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DN
Received 4 May 2023113 Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3AF
Received 5 Nov 2004Adj. Corner House Churchgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TA
Received 7 Feb 2022Land Off Station Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 20 Aug 2021A151 Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PY
Received 19 Jun 2018Riverside Opposite No. 24 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Dec 1991WHITE HOUSE FARM BOSTON ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NU
Received 8 Dec 2022Commercial Road Opposite Junction Albert Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2LA
Received 16 May 2013Ryecroft Ryefield Lane Ravens Clough Holbeach
Received 11 Apr 2008The White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 1996Plot 2 Adj. 202 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PB
Received 25 Apr 2023Records 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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