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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Suite 2, 12 Market Chambers Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Apr 1997Town Farm House Church Street Donington
Received 25 Oct 2005CAWOOD HALL CAWOOD LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HB
Received 21 May 2018Childersgate Lane Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1992Adjacent: The Anchorage Churchgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BZ
Received 23 Sept 2019Shavana Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8DS
Received 29 Mar 2005Proctors Field Spalding Road Gosberton
Received 15 Dec 2003Laburnham House Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 1994The Thomas Cowley High School School Lane Donington
Received 12 Oct 2004127 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TW
Received 28 Mar 201914 BEECH GROVE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XQ
Received 1 Apr 2014Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 1997Land rear 60 North Street Crowland Peterborough
Received 14 May 2009RESERVOIR HOUSE 152 RESERVOIR ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DH
Received 2 Nov 2022The Limes Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AA
Received 26 Mar 2008Cornerway 1 Malten Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6UH
Received 22 Jun 200422 Hall Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EW
Received 13 Jul 2006Plots 30-46 Phase 7 Holland Park Spalding Lincs
Received 28 May 199372 RESERVOIR ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DH
Received 22 Feb 2024EMG Ford St Johns Road Spalding
Received 31 Mar 2005Lidl Winsover Centre Spalding PE11 1EJ
Received 4 Mar 2013MAY COTTAGE BROAD DROVE GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JS
Received 2 Oct 2019Grosvenor 48 Broadway Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AW
Received 4 Feb 2022Sports Club Glebe Field Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 18 Mar 2002Records 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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