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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37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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13 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QA
Received 21 Sept 2012Holland Market Winfrey Ave/Swan Street Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 27 Aug 1996Rear of 15 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 1994Roman House Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech
Received 23 Mar 199936 Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jan 2001The Bell, Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 1996Plot 9 Land south of Tudor Lodge Fen Road Holbeach PE12 8QD
Received 16 May 2025Land adj. The Old Chapel House Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PJ
Received 16 Jun 2020NEW HOUSE LOWGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BL
Received 4 Jun 2021The Barn Horseshoe Farm Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 4 Dec 200676 Church Street Holbeach
Received 5 Feb 20074 Francis Street Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Jan 2000The Sessions House Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BB
Received 26 Sept 2025Maple Tree Farm Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 16 Jan 2017SNAKE HALL COTTAGE 105 EAUGATE ROAD MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0TB
Received 2 Sept 2024Land south of 14 West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 25 Apr 200023 Holbeach Road Spalding PE11 2HX
Received 4 Mar 2013Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 1DA
Received 9 Jul 201247 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PW
Received 16 Oct 2023Yates Seeds, Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 2000KERNOW COTTAGE CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JN
Received 13 May 20259 & 10 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1993Land Rear of Paw House Cobgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TD
Received 13 Jan 2022Crespia Lowgate Fleet
Received 20 Oct 2006Records 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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