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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rear of Station House Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NG
Received 14 Feb 2020Land off Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Nov 2022Off Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jun 1994Heron Foods 15a Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BE
Received 15 Jan 2009Dunns Long Sutton Ltd Phoenix Lodge Winters Lane Long Sutton PE12 9BE
Received 1 Feb 2013The Rose and Crown Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JN
Received 7 Nov 2019Plot C, Oldgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 1997Spalding Gate High Road Moulton Spalding
Received 19 Nov 2021Ayscough Avenue Spalding PE11 2QB
Received 18 Aug 2005Land at former swimming pool Town Dam Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 199343 Spalding Common (Former Parigo Offices) Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1996The Queen Inn Station Street Donington
Received 30 Mar 2005High Street Electrical 47 - 49 High Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 8 May 1998Lewin House, 39 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jun 1995140 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1996Adj. The Crown Public House 5 West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LW
Received 9 Apr 2020Masons Lodge Coronation Avenue Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QT
Received 12 Oct 2023Adj. 2 Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JA
Received 2 Dec 2020North Ing Drove Donington Spalding
Received 17 Jun 2020MERRYDOWN 73 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RA
Received 14 Jul 2014Friends Meeting House Burial Ground Westlode Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 2AE
Received 21 Jul 2017Long Lane Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Nov 1998'Rotherwood' Station Road Long Sutton PE12 9BS
Received 26 Mar 2009Ravens Gate Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1996Records 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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