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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
33,909 approved · 4,082 refused · 1,233 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Main Road Lutton Gowts Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1993PIPWELL COTTAGE PIPWELL GATE SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8BA
Received 24 Jul 201411 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 7 Jun 2022Metalair-Filliat Ltd Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 19963 Edinburgh Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2SA
Received 6 Jul 1999Land adjacent 26 and 27 Coronation Avenue Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 21 Oct 200912 LANGWITH DRIVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HQ
Received 14 Aug 2015Unit 2, Cuckoo Farm North Drove Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Nov 19953 Sandown Close Spalding Lincs PE11 3BU
Received 29 Apr 1999Westholme, Quadring Bank Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 19978 Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EG
Received 12 Apr 2007Rear 26 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 14 Dec 2006Weston Hills Road Spalding
Received 5 Nov 2004Land to east Sutton Bridge and north west : Walpole St Peter
Received 25 Jan 2007Springfields Outlet Shopping Festival Gardens Camel Gate Spalding
Received 28 Feb 200534 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PH
Received 16 Dec 2019SALTERN HOUSE HURN ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JE
Received 15 Jun 2017Plot adjacent Byeways Commons Road Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0UF
Received 21 Feb 2011Ash Farm Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8SD
Received 8 Apr 2016Parkside Crescent Park Road Spalding PE11 1RA
Received 25 Apr 201920 WEST END HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7YY
Received 24 May 2018138 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs, PE12 9SG
Received 9 May 1995Burtey Fen Farm Burtey Fen Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SR
Received 7 Sept 201814 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jun 2010Records 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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