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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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ACACIA HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 12 Jun 2024Silver Birches 89 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs PE12 9BX
Received 2 Feb 2004The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 13 Jun 2003MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 9 Aug 202139 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 26 May 201175 High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 5 Apr 2001Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 2 Oct 20265 WINDSOR GARDENS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DY
Received 20 Nov 2014Camelgate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Sept 1999RIVERSEND THE RESERVOIR SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DJ
Received 5 Jan 2021Corner Farm, Banks Drove The Cuckoo Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3BJ
Received 10 Oct 19973 Apeldoorn Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1JT
Received 20 Dec 2006Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs.
Received 29 Apr 1992Former Crossing Keepers Cottage Dog Drove South Whaplode Drove
Received 2 Sept 2004Spalding Grammar School St Thomas's/Haverfield Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XH
Received 23 Sept 201367 Little London Long Sutton
Received 1 Jun 200426-28 Commercial Road Spalding
Received 9 Sept 2005The Chestnuts 286 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JR
Received 5 Apr 20229 MONKS MEADOW CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LJ
Received 1 Mar 201726 Lancaster Drive Long Sutton Spalding
Received 10 Sept 1992179 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 2001Land Rear of 75 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6AP
Received 18 Sept 2023Cecil Francis Business Park Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XA
Received 13 Jul 2022Hacienda North Road Gedney Hill
Received 25 Apr 2007Records 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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