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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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31 Chappell Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3ER
Received 1 Nov 2007University Academy Holbeach Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PU
Received 30 May 2012Land adjacent to Bell Bush Farm Little Worth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 28 Oct 2003PYEWIPE FARM NORTH DROVE SPALDING PE11 3JF
Received 11 Aug 202087 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit PE12 0XD
Received 4 Nov 202124 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HA
Received 16 Aug 2004154 QUEENS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2JQ
Received 28 Aug 2014Hunters Lodge Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XA
Received 28 Jun 20078 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JG
Received 1 Oct 2009Adj. 78 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EY
Received 8 Sept 2021Holbeach Villa Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 7 Jan 2000Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1993Church Way - Willows Close Tydd St Mary
Received 12 Nov 200434 Roman Bank Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 2012SYCAMORE FARM COMMON ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LF
Received 2 Jul 2014Main Road Filling Station Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 23 Apr 1997Land adj. to Crossroads Nurseries Main Road Quadring Spalding PE11 4PJ
Received 9 Sept 2022Holbeach St Johns Village Hall Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RS
Received 20 Dec 2006Spalding Monkshouse Primary School Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Mar 2000Crawford House Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AJ
Received 22 Aug 2016Parish of Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Dec 1997The Farm, Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jan 2000Wignal's Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 30 Jul 2021Benfield The Tenters Holbeach
Received 2 Jun 2004Records 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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