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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Received 18 Oct 1995Fenholme London Road Long Sutton
Received 12 May 2004Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UE
Received 15 Nov 2019The Poplars Hog's Gate Moulton
Received 24 Apr 2003A16/A151 Holbeach Road Roundabout Spalding PE12 6JP
Received 1 Apr 2021WYVALE GARDEN CENTRES LTD POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0JB
Received 22 Jul 2022Adjacent Seagate Bungalow 3 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 26 Apr 2004Land Adj. 50 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 0XD
Received 20 Mar 202021 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 199476 Commercial Road Spalding
Received 9 Sept 2008The Old Library Site West Street Long Sutton PE12 9BN
Received 23 Jan 2009Link Road Farm Shop Scoldhall Lane Surfleet
Received 7 Jun 2002'The Delands' Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 1994In the parish of Weston Hills and Moulton
Received 14 Aug 199215 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2DZ
Received 12 Aug 201089 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1999Delaune Watergate Quadring Eaudyke Spalding PE11 4PZ
Received 1 Feb 2012The Gables Millgate Whaplode St Catherine
Received 10 May 2005Plot 1 Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Aug 200082 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4DQ
Received 18 Jun 202689 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JU
Received 19 Mar 2012Rear 50 Halmergate (fronting onto Exeter Drive) Spalding
Received 14 Apr 2008Plot Adj. Four Winds 33 Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LS
Received 22 Jun 2021Part OS 237 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding, Lincs
Received 16 Nov 1993Records 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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