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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Manor House Road Saracens Head Spalding
Received 26 Apr 1993Land fronting: Kirk Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TE
Received 2 Sept 20161 PARK CLOSE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4FA
Received 9 Sept 2014Dawsons Charity Farm Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 1997Former Green's Car Park Area Cross Street / Kirkgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TA
Received 14 Apr 2016Pinchbeck Road/West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 20157 Market Place (incorporating 18-19 Bridge Street & 1 Market Place) Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 2001Land at Corner of Holbeach Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6ED
Received 25 Feb 2026Norpeg Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 4 Nov 1998OS Pt.No.3375 Churchway Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 27 Nov 1991Land rear: 9 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RA
Received 15 Jan 2019Peterborough and Spalding Gliding Club St Guthlacs Lodge Spalding Road Crowland PE6 0JW
Received 6 Jan 2025Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 199818 -19 New Road Spalding
Received 21 Apr 20044a ST THOMAS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2XY
Received 5 Aug 2014Church of St Mary Barrier Bank Cowbit
Received 15 Jun 2012Fen Gate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 14 Dec 2016Land adjacent 27A Chapel Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AR
Received 20 May 201011 Chiltern Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Feb 19926 Stockhouse Lane Surfleet
Received 5 May 2005Rear of 19a Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0NP
Received 7 Aug 202310 Green Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 2YB
Received 4 Apr 2008Phase III, Land off Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 18 Jun 1993Ivy House Gosberton Bank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Aug 1997Records 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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