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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
37,618 approved · 4,558 refused · 1,377 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Twigglets Day Nursery Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BE
Received 2 Jul 20094 Wheatmere Drove Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6NA
Received 18 Aug 2011Little London Service Station London Road Little London
Received 13 Dec 2001Former 164-166 Ye Olde Dun Cow Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 15 May 20159 LOW GATE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NL
Received 12 Feb 2020Rear 50 Halmergate (fronting onto Exeter Drive) Spalding
Received 18 Oct 20077 Second Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 199655 MILESTONE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XR
Received 28 Feb 2022Clanranald House North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NS
Received 28 Jun 1993Yucca House, Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1995Land south North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill
Received 14 Sept 200648 Sherwood Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1QP
Received 6 Oct 2004Plot 6, Monkshouse Court Monkhouse Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jun 1996Reading Room Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Apr 2001Glenside Nurseries Ltd Glenside South West Pinchbeck, Spalding Lincs, PE11 3NA
Received 16 Nov 199430 The Reservoir Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DJ
Received 26 Mar 20102 Westminster Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2UW
Received 15 Feb 2002St Johns Vicarage 66a Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 1JQ
Received 23 Jul 2013Ivy House Farm Sutton Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HU
Received 13 Apr 202612 OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 25 Nov 2021St Peter St Pauls Church Churchyard Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 29 Oct 20085 CRESSWELL CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING LINCOLNSHIRE PE11 3TY
Received 1 Sept 20158 Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1998River Lane Moulton Spalding
Received 14 Jan 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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