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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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16 Crown Avenue Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8EU
Received 11 Aug 2003BANK LODGE STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BS
Received 11 Apr 2022Spalding Energy Expansion Site West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 2BB
Received 16 Aug 2021Land west Woolram Wygate Wygate Park Spalding
Received 27 Jan 200622 Rutland Gardens Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 2002Land off Fairfields Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 6TX
Received 10 Oct 199111 Birch Grove Spalding Lincs PE11 2HL
Received 6 Nov 2019Land at Cowpers Gate Long Sutton
Received 17 May 2002Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Feb 1994Land off Green Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 6 Jan 202128 SHERWOOD DRIVE SPALDING PE11 1QP
Received 1 May 2015Gosberton House Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 1998Land to the north of Sunrise Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 2019ORCHARD HOUSE BLUE GOWT DROVE SPALDING PE11 3PX
Received 11 May 2020Home Farm Millgate Whaplode
Received 12 Jan 2005Rear of Bentleys 2 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 27 Oct 2011Land/Barn off Further Old Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 2 Sept 20153 Cluttons Close Crowland Lincs PE6 0HD
Received 21 Feb 200016 Dick Turpin Way Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EP
Received 6 Sept 200682 Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 5 Nov 2004The Bridge Caravan Park Common Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HJ
Received 16 Dec 201150 Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8SD
Received 4 May 20174 WINFREY CLOSE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9FN
Received 24 Aug 2016Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 1999Records 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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