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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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11 Lincoln Avenue Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PQ
Received 14 Apr 2008Land to the south-west of Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 28 Feb 2001First Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs, PE11 4LD
Received 3 May 1994293 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 27 Nov 20132 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jun 1996Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 2001The Broadway Crawford Gardens Crowland PE6 0ND
Received 22 May 2000Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding
Received 2 Jul 2001307 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jul 199731 Sorrel Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3GN
Received 12 Aug 2002"Witham House" Church Street Donington Spalding
Received 15 Jun 1992Chopdyke Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 4 Oct 1995Rear of The Laurels 30 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 2001PRINCES LIMITED BRIDGE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EQ
Received 3 May 2019Bijou Barrier Bank Cowbit PE12 6AE
Received 18 Apr 2002ROBINSONS COTTAGE NORTH DROVE QUADRING FEN SPALDING PE11 4QS
Received 19 Oct 2018Waltons Farm Langary Gate Road Fleet Coy Gedney Hill
Received 4 Jan 2001West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 23 Jun 199340 South Street Crowland PE6 0AJ
Received 10 Dec 2001Rear of Rampart Cottage Chapelgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BJ
Received 19 Sept 2024The Red Cow Public House High Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TA
Received 17 Jan 2011Crowland Caravans and Camping Carrington Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 22 Jun 2010Glenside North Nurseries Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 7 Jul 1997MIDDLE BUNGALOW SALTNEY GATE SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AT
Received 16 Aug 2019Records 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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