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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Vine Commercial Road Spalding
Received 15 Aug 2002BEAULAH HOUSE 150 NENE TERRACE ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LH
Received 14 Jan 202018 Thornton Road Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jan 1992129 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 2 Mar 2005White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1998SHEAF COTTAGE COWPERS GATE (SOUTH) LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AX
Received 31 Jul 2020D A Green Sons Ltd High Road Whaplode
Received 24 Jan 2006The Bridge Hotel Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 6 Oct 2004Marylands Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs P12 8BX
Received 15 Jul 2010Weston Hills Village Hall Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 17 Jan 20053 PADDOCK LANE HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8AJ
Received 17 Dec 2015Oasis Beauty & Day Spa 89 Little London Spalding PE11 2UJ
Received 25 Feb 2009Ropers Lane and Broadgate Road Sutton St James
Received 2 May 2003Station Street Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 19971 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3JP
Received 1 Jun 1999Low Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Sept 199125 Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2XN
Received 21 Sept 2011Woolram Wygate (Plots 28 & 29) Phase 7B Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 199837 DANIELS CRESCENT LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DS
Received 13 Sept 2023Plot 10 Delph Fields Long Sutton Spalding
Received 24 Nov 1993Northcote Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 7 Jun 20139 River Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 20051 Abbey Mews Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EH
Received 5 Sept 2005'The Firs', 35 Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 1995Records 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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