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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Anglia Motel A17 Trunk Road Fleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 25 Aug 19991 Beccelm Drive Crowland PE6 0AG
Received 30 Jun 200422 MARRIOTS GATE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HN
Received 17 Oct 2014Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 19971 CRAWFORD GARDENS CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AZ
Received 11 Dec 2014Off Chaucers Way Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1LH
Received 29 Jul 202510 Oakley Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2BN
Received 7 Aug 2002Land North West of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 28 Mar 2022Site of Former Red Cow Hotel High Street Donington Spalding
Received 7 Dec 2021The Ship Inn Surfleet Seas End
Received 7 Aug 20033 St James Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AZ
Received 3 Feb 1995The Sycamores Farmyard Churchgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 3 Jul 2024Cross Street Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 9 Oct 1995Parish of Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1995230 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DQ
Received 26 Aug 2020Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 27 Sept 199548 Guys Head Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9NR
Received 16 May 2005Adjacent 42 Fen Road Holbeach
Received 20 Feb 2006Kennulph's Farm Wrights Drove Crowland PE6 0AB
Received 5 Sept 1996Land adj. Willesby House Albion Street Spalding, Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 6 Jul 1999Rear of Parish Church St Peter and St Paul Salem Street/Church Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Aug 199558 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Mar 1997TILNEY FIELDS BROADGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JF
Received 25 Jul 2017'The Hollies' 74 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 23 Apr 2009Records 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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