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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Received 7 Dec 199260 WINSOVER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1HA
Received 11 Nov 202240 The Chase Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LN
Received 20 Feb 2007MANOR LODGE HERDGATE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UP
Received 18 Mar 202527A QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TD
Received 27 Nov 2014Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jan 201021 SOUTH PARADE SPALDING PE11 2YJ
Received 24 Jul 2025Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding
Received 16 Feb 2001The Old Vicarage Cobgate Whaplode
Received 9 Nov 2001The Old Ranch Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JN
Received 24 Jun 2026Paddock Hospital Drove Little Sutton
Received 28 Mar 2008Long Drove, Hundred Fen Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Apr 1996West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PN
Received 7 Jun 2022Rose Villa Gipsy Lane Gedney Spalding PE12 0AZ
Received 4 Nov 2013'Anfield Barn' Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck
Received 17 Mar 2009Site of former Holly House Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6JA
Received 22 Dec 202014 Hatt Close Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PY
Received 28 Jan 2011Hillside Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PN
Received 11 Feb 20035b & 5c Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 2016BRIDGE LODGE SOUTH DROVE PODE HOLE SPALDING PE11 3ED
Received 8 Feb 2024Long Sutton Indoor Bowls Club The Chase Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BW
Received 13 Sept 20116 EVERGREEN CLOSE SPALDING PE12 6BF
Received 20 Apr 2023LIBRA LODGE EAST GATE FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8NA
Received 2 Jun 2016Land at St Mary's Meadow Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 Nov 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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