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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Aug 2004Monks House Primary School Pennygate Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1LG
Received 19 Sept 2023Fen Gate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 11 Jul 2017Whittington House Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BZ
Received 27 Jan 2012Flaxmill House 12 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 4 Sept 2026Rear Karhil 15 Low Road Spalding
Received 22 Mar 2006Rear 42 West Street Crowland PE6 0ED
Received 16 Jul 2007Five Acre Farm Broad Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JS
Received 10 Oct 199135 Westmoreland Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 200828 ROWAN AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2LH
Received 3 May 202356A Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Apr 1996Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0UA
Received 26 May 2022Fleet Road/Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 199715 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 19 Jun 2001The Cottage Hundreds Lane Little Sutton
Received 7 Aug 200120 BOWDITCH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2QF
Received 22 Oct 2019South Ing Cottage South Ing Drove Donington
Received 27 Dec 2001The Curlew Centre Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SA
Received 15 Oct 2024New House Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 4 Apr 2003THE GOLDEN BALL PUBLIC HOUSE MAIN ROAD HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0PS
Received 14 Feb 2014Adjacent 37 Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TW
Received 18 May 2011First Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4LD
Received 23 Jan 1995Sandiacres 29 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 23 Jun 200813 GREENWICH AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JF
Received 19 Apr 2016Records 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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