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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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New Premises Former National Tyre Depot Swan Street Spalding
Received 18 Dec 2003Site to the South West of Spalding with access from The Broadway to the North and B1172 to the South Spalding
Received 29 May 2014Harvester Way Crowland
Received 11 Nov 2008Plot 1 South of Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QG
Received 19 Apr 202136 POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JB
Received 22 Mar 202436 WARGATE WAY GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HE
Received 28 Mar 201434 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1998Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 1993Site Adjacent: 37 Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XF
Received 12 Jul 2016Decoy Farm Crowland
Received 14 Sept 2005ST ALBANS HOUSE FEN GATE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XL
Received 13 Feb 2024260 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TG
Received 14 Mar 2007Gosberton House School 11 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EW
Received 30 Jul 2018Beech House 46 St James Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AZ
Received 30 Apr 2015Land off Nutts Lane Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 Jun 2025BROMLEY HOUSE CHESBOULE LANE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4EU
Received 19 Oct 2020White Hart Market Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SU
Received 22 Aug 201351 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DQ
Received 16 Apr 2004The Hollies 60 Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 25 Jul 2008Laceys Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 4 Jul 2002Former Finning Site Westlode Street/Double Street Spalding
Received 6 Sept 2007Parishes of Sutton St James and Tydd, Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 199727 Hall Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SG
Received 23 Jul 2012Gubboles Drove Surfleet
Received 27 Feb 2008Records 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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