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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Crown Farm Grange Road Wingland Terrington St Clement Lincs
Received 8 Jul 1998Plot 3 Lincolnshire Gateway Business Park Spalding
Received 21 Aug 2024Land off West Parade Spalding
Received 23 May 2007Jekylls Bank Moulton Eaugate Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 19923 BROADWAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BJ
Received 4 Jan 2024184 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 16 Dec 2021Adjacent 28 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 24 Sept 2007Off Church Fleet Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Oct 199258 60 Roman Road Moulton Chapel
Received 12 Aug 200519 QUADRING ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NB
Received 27 Jul 201638 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING
Received 5 Nov 2021Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 1999land between 110 124 Station Road Surfleet
Received 17 Dec 2002WILLOUGHBY LODGE 200b FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING
Received 22 Jun 2016Adj. 23 Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EN
Received 26 May 202057 PETERBOROUGH ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BB
Received 22 May 202522 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LL
Received 17 Jul 1996The Old Vicarage Cobgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 4 Sept 1992Land off Green Bank Whaplode Drove
Received 14 Oct 201947 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jul 2012Long Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Aug 2000Poplar Farm Austendyke Road Weston Hills PE12 6BZ
Received 13 Jun 200683 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 1JQ
Received 12 Mar 20025 Love Lane Spalding PE11 2PE
Received 17 Apr 2018Records 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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