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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
37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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4 CRISPIN CLOSE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HE
Received 2 Feb 2026North of 1 Banks Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 1992Land North: Withington Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SU
Received 14 Jun 2016Former: Goodfellows School Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AS
Received 11 Oct 2016Land adjacent former: Plough Inn Public House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EN
Received 28 Apr 20177C London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 1991Site Rear of 54 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HE
Received 2 May 2018Former Girls High School Welland Hall London Road Spalding
Received 29 May 1992Rear 50 Albert Street Spalding PE11 2LD
Received 18 Jun 200434 Malvern Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 2001Land adjoining 80 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 19 Oct 1993Field View Lowgate Tydd St Mary
Received 2 May 2008O A TAYLOR AND SONS BULBS LTD WASHWAY HOUSE FARM WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH PE12 7PP
Received 20 Nov 20153 Red Lion Street Spalding
Received 19 Sept 200319 TOLLS LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PR
Received 13 May 2015Bakkavor Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8HF
Received 3 Oct 2025Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 1992521 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 1994Lime Tree Cottage 14 Town Drove Quadring Spalding, Lincs. PE11 4PU
Received 31 May 200160 Park Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1PR
Received 16 Apr 2009SEAGATE HALL VICARAGE LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AF
Received 11 Feb 2026Unit D Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 17 Dec 2004Crown Hall Farm Dozens Bank Pode Hole PE11 3ND
Received 25 Jul 2008Plot 2 off Church Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6NP
Received 16 Dec 2019Records 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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