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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Holmlea Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 1992Springfields Outlet Shopping Festival Gardens Camelgate Spalding
Received 18 Oct 200776 WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BJ
Received 24 Aug 2021Land adjacent: Spearpoint Farm Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jan 2019Orchard House 48 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 4 Dec 2002Plots 193 and 194 Off New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 17 Mar 2004Enterprise Way South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding
Received 6 Jul 1992Church House Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UA
Received 12 Jun 1998Pinfold Lane Weston Spalding PE12 6JW
Received 27 Dec 201745, 48, Longs Warehouse and Vacant Plot Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Dec 1993'Two Hoots', Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Oct 1997Donington Cowley Endowed Primary School Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 19995 Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AL
Received 22 Jun 199420 Beech Avenue Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2LS
Received 27 Oct 2014THE OAKS 54 SEAS END ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DQ
Received 25 Sept 2014OLD GATE HOUSE FURTHER OLD GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QE
Received 18 Jan 202156 Chapel Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Oct 200050 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 7 Jun 201773 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 17 Aug 1992Land North of 68 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6AH
Received 9 Mar 2023Denva House Fulney Lane South Spalding Lincs PE12 6FA
Received 5 May 2011Holbeach Road (Junction of A16/A151) South East Quadrant Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 20002 and 2A Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1992Blazegate Boarding Kennels Cattery Blazegate Lutton
Received 28 Oct 2008Records 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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