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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
36,441 approved · 4,414 refused · 1,321 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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2 Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HG
Received 22 Aug 2025CHARTWELL 83 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JU
Received 30 Mar 2026Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 1994The Mill Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XQ
Received 4 Aug 2011Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 19 Oct 2004Blue Bell Inn Main Road Hop Pole Spalding PE11 3HL
Received 21 Mar 2024Land north and south of Barrier Bank Road (B1173), and north-west of the A1175 and A16 on the southern edge of Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 20144 Engine Dyke Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 1994Roffes Catering Bells Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JG
Received 6 Jan 2010Land to rear of 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 of Holyrood Close Donington Spalding PE11 4SP
Received 19 Jan 2015Small Drove Weston
Received 13 Mar 2003Old Pack House Cheal Road Surfleet
Received 19 Oct 2006Adj. The Robin Hood Inn 1 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2019Plot 1, Buttercup Paddock Churchgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 19 Sept 1997Tysdale Manor Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QH
Received 3 Sept 2026Long Sutton Telephone Exchange Park Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jan 1996Kymaarrow 6 Angelica Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3GB
Received 6 Jun 2005Threeacres Blazegate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 199955 FEN END LANE SPALDING PE12 6AD
Received 7 Apr 201436 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 4 Feb 1998Land at Chase Farm Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 3 Nov 20034 Oak Square Crowland Spalding PE6 0DX
Received 28 Mar 2025Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 10 Jan 200379 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 10 Oct 2003Records 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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