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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Market House 1 Stone Gate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 11 Oct 2017Tween Us Cobgate Whaplode
Received 1 Feb 200642 HIGH ROAD MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PE
Received 7 Feb 2025Lionsbridge, Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 200030 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LB
Received 5 Jul 200251 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 13 Dec 2011Oak House Cold Stores Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding
Received 11 Jul 1996Adjacent 30 Linden Court Spalding
Received 2 Aug 2005Crowmarsh Cottage Eastern Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 9 Jun 2008Rear: 47 Stone Gate Cowbit PE12 6AH
Received 20 Aug 20187 and 9 Roman Bank Gedney Dyke
Received 16 Feb 200413 London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 28 Jun 2013St James Church Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XQ
Received 7 Jul 2020Land at Station Yard Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jun 1999Adj. to 12 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1995Unit 2 White Hart Market Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SU
Received 27 Mar 2013Orchard Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3EN
Received 1 Jul 2009Rear of Willows End 200 Main Road Fleet
Received 6 Aug 2003Bank House Broad Street Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 2000109A PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QL
Received 18 Aug 20229 Lincolns Avenue Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jan 2003THE BELL INN 33 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UB
Received 28 Feb 2022Fenland Manor Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RQ
Received 30 Jul 2013GARNSGATE HALL LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 29 Aug 2023Records 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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