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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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74 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Sept 2000Lutton Gate Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1990BRIDGE HOUSE FISHERGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EZ
Received 2 Dec 2015Spalding Golf Club Surfleet
Received 16 Jul 2007Fleet Infirmary Building Holbeach House Nursing Home Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 17 Sept 19925 Woodbank Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EL
Received 7 Aug 2025Land at 47 High Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 200141 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Dec 1992Land off London Road Long Sutton
Received 23 Oct 2006Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jan 1998Paddock Lodge, Nutts Lane Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1996South Holland Centre Market Place Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2006176 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 27 Sept 2018Bramley House Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 19992 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AP
Received 20 Oct 2003One Stop Convenience Store Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 199939 Independence Drive Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TR
Received 12 Aug 202521 Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LG
Received 31 Aug 2007156 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 200117-18 Market Place & The White Hart Hotel Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 25 Jul 1996Land adjacent Dromedary Lodge Camelgate Spalding
Received 18 Jul 2008Barrier Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 3 May 199575 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NJ
Received 26 Aug 2016Borden House Farm Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LF
Received 16 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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