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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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58 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 27 Aug 1996Witteman Nurseries South Drove Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3BD
Received 9 May 202513 North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EG
Received 13 Apr 2012Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 5 Nov 2018Land at Foxes Lowe Road Holbeach
Received 31 Jan 2001Plots 10, 11, 12, & 14 St Mary's Meadows Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 28 Mar 2000West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PN
Received 26 Feb 2019McDonalds Restaurant Junction of A16/A151 Spalding Lincs PE11 6JP
Received 7 Jun 2010'The Poplars', Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 199543 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HX
Received 30 Jun 201076A BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JR
Received 4 Mar 202128 HIGHSTOCK LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0QG
Received 16 Dec 202116 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jun 199471 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JW
Received 24 Jan 200615b FISHPOND LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DE
Received 4 Jan 2019Land at Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4JL
Received 27 Apr 2000Site Adj. to Fairholme Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NR
Received 22 Nov 2017The Nook, Nutts Lane (Dog Drove) Whaplode St Catherine Spalding
Received 7 Jan 1998Land adjacent 124 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TW
Received 25 Jul 2013Black Barn Cottage Black Barn Gedney Drove End
Received 30 Jul 2004Spalding Sessions House & former Police Station, Sheep Market & 33 The Crescent Spalding, Lincs
Received 4 Nov 199411 Cresswell Close Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TY
Received 13 Jun 2024ROSLYN 36 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UA
Received 18 Jan 2016The Bell Inn 33 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UB
Received 15 Oct 2026Records 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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