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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Rear of Royal Standard Public House, London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Sept 1994LAWNWOOD 47 PLANK DROVE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0BY
Received 17 Jul 2014Master Dyke Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jul 1997Kestrel Cottage Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding PE12 8BL
Received 24 Apr 2013Off Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 199955 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 2001Land off Church Gate Road Off A17 near Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jun 1992The Granary Bedford Place Spalding
Received 12 Oct 2007Wykeham Lodge Roman Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 6EY
Received 30 Nov 2001Land to Rear of 75 South Street Crowland PE6 0AH
Received 9 Sept 2026Three Ways Proudfoot Lane Fleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Oct 2000Land South of Clay Drove Pode Hole Spalding Lincs PE11 3NB
Received 9 Nov 2020Broad Street Business Centre 10 Broad Street Spalding PE11 1TB
Received 18 Jun 2021Adj. 2 Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HT
Received 10 Feb 2022The Chestnuts Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JD
Received 30 Jul 2012Land off Thary Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BN
Received 6 Aug 202636 Lilburn Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3NU
Received 19 Oct 1998Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 201212 Wayet Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RR
Received 9 Oct 202546 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 18 Sept 2026Holbeach Road (Junction of A16/A151, North East Quadrant Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jul 1998Gardners Cottage Hocklesgate Fleet Spalding
Received 1 Sept 1993Shepeau Stow Primary School Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 20016 Church Street Spalding PE11 2PB
Received 24 Jul 2017Records 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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