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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Adjacent 73 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 16 Feb 200766 PARK AVENUE SPALDING PE11 1QX
Received 23 Nov 20207 Washdyke Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4SL
Received 30 Jun 20143 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TB
Received 7 Aug 2009Peldon House 100 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RQ
Received 21 Jul 2011Land Adjacent: Ashtree Lodge Lambert Bank Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PR
Received 6 Apr 2020Fairview Birds Drove Surfleet, Spalding Lincolnshire. PE11 4BE
Received 24 Feb 199812 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 11 Mar 2015Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Dec 1994Delgate Farm Foote's Drove Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1992First floor 39-41 High Street Holbeach
Received 12 Jun 2007Old Black Horse Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding PE12 8DJ
Received 7 Oct 2024SPALDING GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL HOUSE PRIORY ROAD SPALDING PE11 2XH
Received 5 Sept 2016Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 18 Jun 1993ALDER VETERINARY SURGERY 58 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JW
Received 6 Jul 202612 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 199888 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 15 Dec 2004Off Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LG
Received 30 Apr 2021Land off Spalding Drove Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 31 Jan 2025Part OS. 4259, Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jul 1997Rear of Charter Lodge Charters Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JX
Received 6 Sept 2023Edmondson Ford 2/4 St Johns Road Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Oct 1997High Road Weston
Received 15 Dec 200335-47 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Feb 1999Records 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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