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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37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Adjacent to 106 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TW
Received 10 Mar 2017Peverill 51 Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TS
Received 20 Dec 200610 New Road Spalding
Received 7 Feb 2002Land adjacent to D B Builders Seas End Road Moulton Loosegate Spalding PE12 6JZ
Received 11 Oct 2012Cowley Road Donington
Received 1 Nov 2005Part OS 0005, Garnsgate Road Long Sutton
Received 12 Dec 200153 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 10 Apr 2018Off Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LU
Received 16 May 2018Land at Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding
Received 29 Sept 2025Unit 1, Holland Market Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Sept 1996Whaplode Manor Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jan 1992The Ship Albion Inn 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 11 Sept 200936 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DQ
Received 12 Jul 2021Land behind Crowsons Showroom Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 27 Oct 2005Land off Wintergold Avenue Wygate Park Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Dec 1999Land off Hallgate Holbeach Lincs
Received 5 Jun 199860 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EE
Received 24 Jun 2009Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SE
Received 25 Apr 2003MOULTON MEDICAL CENTRE HIGH STREET MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QB
Received 30 Mar 20211 Vine Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1AN
Received 24 Jun 2011Silverdrive Salem Street Gosberton
Received 4 Apr 2003MAIN ROAD FILLING STATION WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 18 Mar 2022Oxyjet House (formerly Laburnum House Barn) Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SQ
Received 17 Dec 201457 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Dec 2003Records 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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