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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
37,479 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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St Francis Veterinary Surgery 49 St Thomas's Road Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Feb 1994Barling Deer Farm Bardlings Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JN
Received 25 Aug 2023High Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 10 Jun 2015Adj. Charnwood 259 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TG
Received 20 Jun 202227 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LA
Received 16 Jul 2014Rear Othellos Bakery 31 High Street Long Sutton
Received 6 Oct 20048 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire. PE11 3UA
Received 13 Aug 1997Mill Bank Fleet Fen Spalding
Received 7 Jul 2003Park Road Cemetery Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 25 Oct 202228 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AG
Received 30 Mar 2017The Priors Oven 1 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs PE11 1BH
Received 24 Sept 2013Dolburn House Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn
Received 3 Dec 2007Springfields Outlet Shopping Festival Gardens Camelgate Spalding
Received 3 Apr 20086 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 17 Jun 2009Millfield Nursery Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PW
Received 26 May 202226 SOUTH STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AJ
Received 1 Jan 20234 Vicarage Close Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RS
Received 6 Dec 20127 9 Roman Bank Gedney
Received 18 Mar 2005Lowgate Fleet
Received 5 Sept 2003Image Hall, 197 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jan 1996Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 1993Wagtail House The Raceground Spalding Lincs PE11 3AP
Received 27 Apr 20042 St Thomas Road - 57 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 11 Jan 2008Land between 28 and 34 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EP
Received 6 Mar 2012Records 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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