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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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23 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TD
Received 13 Nov 2006Lonsdale House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DG
Received 8 Aug 2006Riverside East Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9YA
Received 26 Oct 201110 SHEARERS DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3ZJ
Received 11 Sept 2014Land off Small Drove Weston Spalding PE12 6HU
Received 28 Feb 2019Aswick Grange Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jul 2000Plot adjacent 108 St Thomas's Road Spalding
Received 15 Jun 1992The Bull Hotel Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9QF
Received 19 Jun 2001Holmelea and Greenpastures Park Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4UE
Received 19 Nov 2013CROWLAND ABBEY CHURCH LANE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0ER
Received 22 Dec 20221 Abbey Walk Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EP
Received 22 Jul 19964 Winfrey Close Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9FN
Received 6 Sept 2013Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4XA
Received 17 Oct 2014Beech House 20 Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 5 Dec 2024EMG Motor Group St Johns Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JA
Received 21 Aug 2009Avondale Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jul 2011DECOY FARM SPALDING ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LX
Received 17 Aug 2015Land at New River Gate Holbeach St John Spalding PE12 0RY
Received 23 May 2018Land at Lowgate Fleet Spalding
Received 13 May 2022Battleford Hall Bensgate Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8NL
Received 27 Oct 2025Plot 2 Off Park Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 2000Land off Pudding Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1998West: Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 199248 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1995Records 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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