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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
37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Chapel House Mill Bank Holbeach
Received 5 Aug 20084 ESTELLA WAY SPALDING PE11 1HS
Received 16 Jan 2018Wingland Enterprise Park Centenary Way Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 4 Sept 2012Big Tree Farm Marsh Drove Surfleet Marsh Spalding Lincs PE11 4DW
Received 23 Jan 2002Site between Wygate Park and Monks Lane Spalding
Received 4 Nov 2002Adjacent: 10 Milestone Lane Pinchbeck
Received 27 Nov 199528 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 15 Nov 1993White Bungalow Fengate Moulton Chapel
Received 21 Nov 200340A Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RQ
Received 16 Nov 2007Land off Kemp Street Crowland Lincs PE6 0HE
Received 1 Jun 1999Land Adjacent Garthwaite Memorial Hall Park Lane Long Sutton
Received 1 Mar 2004Land East of Church Street and South of Bicker Road Donington
Received 2 Mar 202032 Crown Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2HU
Received 5 Oct 19949 Hall Place Spalding
Received 13 Oct 2008Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 8 Jan 1993Penny Hill Farm Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 1999Junction of A16 and A151 Holbeach Road South East Quadrant Spalding
Received 2 Mar 2010Adjacen: Lapwing 72 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 18 Jan 2018Rear of Twyfords Riddle 66 Lowgate Road Lutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 16 Jul 1998270 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6TG
Received 27 Jul 2023Flaxmill Flaxmill Lane Pinchbeck
Received 20 Jul 200715 Westmoreland Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PU
Received 5 Aug 200890 Roman Road Moulton Chapel
Received 19 Jun 2006Land at 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 16 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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