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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Windermere Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PN
Received 5 Sept 201222A WINSOVER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1EJ
Received 7 May 2021Land to rear of 10-26 Postland Road 1-25 Cloot Drove Crowland
Received 29 Oct 200819 Glen Gardens Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 2004Curlew Lodge Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge
Received 8 Mar 2010HAWTHORN COTTAGE GLENSIDE NORTH PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3SD
Received 29 Aug 2018Haverfield Road Spalding
Received 14 Dec 2006Anglia Motel Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 2003Station Road (West) (Plots 64 and 65) Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 May 1995Harford Gate Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 19997 Primrose Way Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jun 2005Field Bungalow Blazegate Gedney Spalding PE12 0AD
Received 7 Dec 2021Pinchbeck Hall Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RB
Received 15 Apr 2024Greystones Cranesgate South Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RJ
Received 30 Jul 2026WAITES FARM BARNS SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LD
Received 23 Feb 2024Coney Garth Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Jan 1999Paga House Hulls Drove Postland Crowland PE6 0JU
Received 23 Dec 2009Adjoining: The New Inn Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 1992MERMAID INN 2 GOSBERTON ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AB
Received 23 Aug 202185 Little London Long Sutton Spalding
Received 13 Feb 2001Off Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JP
Received 6 Nov 2020Former: Dairy Depot Winslow Gate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 199564 Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AB
Received 27 Jun 201195 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 11 Nov 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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