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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sand Pitts Farm Off Wisbech Road Long Sutton
Received 10 Oct 1995Land Off Cherry Tree Lane Holbeach Lincolnshire
Received 11 Jan 2000West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 23 Dec 1997Currys 14 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Sept 1993Tabeal House Fengate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 2011Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UF
Received 31 May 2022146 Bridge Road Little Sutton Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 17 Oct 2002Adjacent The Priory Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 11 May 2005Newton Press Newton House 36-37 Double Street Spalding
Received 12 Dec 200354 NORTH STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EF
Received 4 Jul 2026PARSONAGE FARM PARSONAGE LANE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE12 0JA
Received 29 Apr 2019Red Mays Farm Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9HG
Received 15 Mar 2013The Travel Stop Locks Mill Farm Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Dec 1999Site No. 4, Off Park Close Donington Spalding, Lincs
Received 15 Apr 1999Sutton Bridge Marina West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 2010Tydd St Mary C of E Primary School Church Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QY
Received 29 May 2013Cherrywood Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PT
Received 3 Jan 20141 Gorse Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1GR
Received 11 Oct 2013THE MANOR HOUSE 5 EAST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0EN
Received 4 Jun 202620 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Nov 1993Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 7 Oct 201691 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 17 Aug 2007FENACRE FARM 92 PETERS POINT ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9UX
Received 29 Jul 2022Plots 11a, 12, 13, Phase 7 Aalsmeer Rise Holland Park Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jun 1992Records 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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