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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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8 Chiltern Drive Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 19 Apr 2004Plot 1, Watergate Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 1994Deeping Fen Farm Baston Fen Peterborough PE6 9PU
Received 15 Sept 201150 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 17 Nov 2016Land East of Normanton Road Crowland
Received 8 Aug 2025127 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EF
Received 28 Jul 2005Old Library West Street Long Sutton
Received 20 Nov 2007Land to North of Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 16 Nov 2020Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 2 Dec 1992The Anglia Motel Washway Road (A17) Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 19958 Birch Grove Spalding Lincs PE11 2HL
Received 15 Jan 20076 Apeldoorn Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1JT
Received 18 Mar 1993RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE 34 HILLGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NN
Received 4 Jun 2015Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Apr 2000Lowfields Nurseries Fulney Drove Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Mar 1999Town Farm House Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UA
Received 3 Nov 2005Spalding Golf Club Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Feb 199614 Halmer Gate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Apr 200159-61 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 18 Jun 2018Guy's Head Lighthouse West Bank Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire PE12 9QJ
Received 18 Dec 2014West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 2003Plot 3, Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1992Marshalls Farm and Cold Store Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 1996Fratelli Restaurant 44 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 1998Records 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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