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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
37,167 approved · 4,539 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Bridge Farm Nursery Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 22 Jun 2001Main Road Garage Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Aug 199422 WOODROW PLACE SPALDING PE11 1BF
Received 26 May 2016Former Odeon Cinema London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Sept 1996TSB Bank, 6 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 15 Mar 1999249 PENNYGATE SPALDING PE11 1LS
Received 23 Jan 2020The Gate House Northgate Gosberton PE11 4LJ
Received 9 Feb 200938 FRENCH DROVE THORNEY PETERBOROUGH PE6 0PE
Received 27 Jun 20183 CHARLETTE WAY SPALDING PE11 1RW
Received 30 Jan 2020Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 200041 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TE
Received 8 Jan 2016WHITE HOUSE FARM BOSTON ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NU
Received 13 Jun 2014Compact Car Corner Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AG
Received 10 Jun 2014Land at 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 19 Dec 2025The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 30 Jul 2002The Willow Cottage 59 Guanockgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding, Lincs PE12 0LU
Received 17 Dec 2003Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SH
Received 23 May 2019The Old Coach House Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PZ
Received 17 Oct 2001Porters Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 2000Specsavers 31 Hall Place Spalding
Received 15 Mar 200712 WIGNALS GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HL
Received 19 Dec 2023Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Sept 199946 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LX
Received 9 Dec 200473 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 5 Oct 2006Records 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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