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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Hillbrook House Hall Gate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Nov 199317 HATT CLOSE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PX
Received 16 Jun 2020Windmill Lane Garage Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 2001V P Nurseries, 3 Mallard Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1997Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 1996The Hawthorns Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NN
Received 18 Jul 2012THE COTTAGE 18 SCHOOL LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HW
Received 29 Sept 2017The Chase Long Sutton Spalding
Received 11 Jul 1994H L Foods Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 7 Jun 2000Pax Veteres Holbeach Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6JP
Received 4 Mar 2024Plot 2, Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 1995Mayfield Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PX
Received 20 Mar 2003Sholtsgate Nursery Ltd Sholtsgate Whaplode PE12 6TZ
Received 31 Jan 2013Old Library West Street Long Sutton
Received 13 Mar 2008Land at the Junction of Wardentree Lane/Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 30 Jan 202012 HALL GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QG
Received 26 Feb 2018Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs PE11 4QB
Received 12 May 20043 Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 2003West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PN
Received 15 Jul 202043 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 25 Jan 200199 MILLFIELD GARDENS CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0HA
Received 24 Jun 201444 Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AB
Received 10 Jan 2014117 High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 22 Aug 19949 - 11 High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DU
Received 24 Jul 2026Records 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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