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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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9 Market Place Spalding
Received 10 Oct 1994Land adjacent 84 Station Road Tydd Gote
Received 3 Jun 20045 Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2XL
Received 15 Jun 2006Land at Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PA
Received 4 Mar 2019Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 1996Belnie House Farm Buildings Belnie Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HN
Received 5 Sept 2025Poplar Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 28 Dec 2005Rear of Westerly Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 3 Feb 202615 Russell Drive Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6XH
Received 9 Feb 2009Government House High Street Spalding
Received 10 Feb 201526 Roman Bank Spalding
Received 2 Mar 2009Front garden of Sutton House High Street Long Sutton Spalding
Received 22 Oct 2012Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NE
Received 9 Aug 1994Plots adjacant to Broadlands Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1996Plot North of The Old School House Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 16 Feb 200076 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HG
Received 2 Dec 19944 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Oct 1995Wagtail House The Raceground Spalding Lincs PE11 3AP
Received 26 Apr 200113 Churchgate Spalding Lincs PE11 2RA
Received 29 Mar 2006ANTIQUE CENTRE 197a NENE TERRACE ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LD
Received 22 Apr 202429 Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 200330 Midsummer Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9GF
Received 5 Jul 2007Lambert Bank Fleet Fen Holbeach Drove Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 26 Nov 1999FLAT LINDEN HOUSE CHURCHGATE GEDNEY PE12 0BZ
Received 19 Jan 2022Records 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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