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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Station Street Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 16 Mar 2000Plot 2, Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 1993The Walnuts 29 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HE
Received 6 Feb 2002Washdike Lane Donington SPALDING PE11 4SJ
Received 19 Aug 20165 St Thomas Court Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EZ
Received 22 May 2006Clay Lake Farmhouse Burr Lane Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2001Broadgate House Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 1994First Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Mar 1996Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 199730 Low Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BX
Received 11 Sept 2000LAPWING 72 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 2 May 2023BRAEMAR NORTH GATE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4LJ
Received 28 Mar 2019MOULTON CHAPEL COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL EAUGATE ROAD MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0XJ
Received 4 Oct 2021MOULTON METHODIST CHURCH BELL LANE MOULTON SPALDING
Received 22 Dec 2021The Garth School Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 1993The Riverside Hotel 123 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DG
Received 28 Jan 20108 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UD
Received 26 Jul 2018Reservoir Road Surfleet Reservoir Surfleet Spalding
Received 26 Jan 1993Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 2011Land off Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NP
Received 22 Dec 202118 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 4 Apr 20083 Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 1997Mount Pleasant Delgate Bank Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Aug 1998BLEU RAYE FARM MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RY
Received 18 May 2023Records 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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