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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Loop Lane Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 May 2000SANDHURST HOLBEACH DROVE GATE HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0PX
Received 28 Sept 2026Thorpes Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 1996"Davrene", Churchgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 19959 Pennyhill Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2DR
Received 16 Jun 1993The Bungalow Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 11 Sept 2001Land between 28 and 34 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 25 Jul 2006The Jolly Farmer Roman Road Moulton Chapel
Received 3 Nov 200414 Little London Long Sutton
Received 29 Nov 200653 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PZ
Received 16 Aug 2005Adjacent 204 High Road Weston
Received 6 Oct 20067 STATION ROAD TYDD GOTE WISBECH PE13 5QA
Received 12 May 2022The Anglia Business Centre Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 22 May 2015154 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SF
Received 28 Aug 2020Land off Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 2001Queens Bank Farm Queens Bank Postland PE6 0JR
Received 7 May 2003TONKIN LOWGATE TYDD ST MARY PE13 5QP
Received 27 Jun 2017Land Adjacent Avenue Farm Avenue Farm Road off New Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9QF
Received 27 Dec 2006Plot 2 Fengate Drove Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 199173 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jul 1992The Abbatoir Bull Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HA
Received 15 Feb 2017Copelade Lodge Little Lane Whaplode
Received 15 Jan 200724 CHESTNUT AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XH
Received 22 Jan 20245 Bank House Farm Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PE
Received 19 Jun 2026Records 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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