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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 9 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
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Plot 1, Lowgate Tydd St Mary Wisbech
Received 11 Jan 2001MAYJON 71 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 29 Apr 2014Rear of 174 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UE
Received 26 Apr 2023160 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PD
Received 19 Oct 200115 Maple Way Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 199389 Hereward Road Spalding PE11 1HG
Received 13 Nov 2017Mallard Hurn Farmhouse Mallard Hurn Donington
Received 11 Aug 2008Custom House Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1992North Road Gedney Hill SPALDING PE12 0NL
Received 18 Aug 2017THE CEDARS 25 WOODGATE ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XF
Received 14 Jun 2018Jasmine Crescent Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7NJ
Received 7 Feb 2025Land at rear of 32 Main Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 199853 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1EG
Received 15 Jan 2009Double Roof Farm High Road Moulton
Received 4 Nov 2003RAINBOW DAY NURSERY 84 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LF
Received 4 Oct 2021Long Lane Nurseries Long Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PP
Received 10 Oct 2018Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 18 Feb 2022Plot adj. to Farm Buildings known as Ashley's Barn Plank Drove Crowland PE6 0BY
Received 15 Jan 1992Hooks of Holbeach Land adj & including 45 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AG
Received 20 Dec 2024Fairfields Farm Cranesgate North Whaplode St Catherine
Received 11 Aug 2003Station Road (Former Nene Transport) Long Sutton Spalding
Received 23 Jul 2020Land adjacent 55 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 201211 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 19944 Edgefield Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 2004Records 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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