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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Fen House Farm Bungalow Broadgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 12 Aug 2024Junction of Station Street and Sheep Market Spalding
Received 24 Jun 2003Land adj The Grange Colly's Gate Lutton
Received 5 Jul 2002BOBTAIL CORNER MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RT
Received 8 Dec 201443 Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AA
Received 11 Nov 201089 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 10 May 20061 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NP
Received 29 Mar 2012Albert Street Holbeach
Received 17 Nov 2003Plot 2 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1992Mallard Hurn (Field no. 3500) Mallard Drove Donington Spalding
Received 11 Sept 1997Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Apr 1999105 NORTH STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EG
Received 4 Jan 202127 EAST ELLOE AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NB
Received 10 Feb 2016Leaves Lake Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QJ
Received 20 Dec 2017201 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 9 Mar 2021Horseshoe Farm, Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jun 1995Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding
Received 28 Feb 2001VICKERS FARM WASHWAY ROAD MOULTON MARSH SPALDING
Received 8 Jan 2019Plots 1-19 Off Broadway Phase 1 Spalding Lincs.
Received 8 May 200035 Edinburgh Drive Spalding PE11 2SA
Received 12 Sept 201615 Swindlers Drove Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6BS
Received 26 Aug 2003Windrush Campains Lane Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3EX
Received 9 Feb 200613 Ambleside Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1JU
Received 24 Dec 19985 JAYNE GARDENS CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0DH
Received 2 Sept 2022Records 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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