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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
37,618 approved · 4,558 refused · 1,377 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Crossways Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 21 Sept 2016Southdown 34 Main Road Quadring
Received 11 Aug 2005Willow Cottage Hungate Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BW
Received 5 Apr 200424 Bell Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PQ
Received 18 Apr 2006Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 1996'Argus House' 56 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2XT
Received 29 Apr 2009ELSHAM 4 BROWNTOFT LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TQ
Received 18 Jan 2023Rear of Croft House 98 Stone Gate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 8 Apr 2022Park Farm, Cley Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Apr 2000Trafford House Church Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QH
Received 6 Aug 2008Lutton Marsh Methodist Church Guys Head Road Lutton Marsh Spalding PE12 9NP
Received 2 Oct 20255 ST NICHOLAS WAY SPALDING PE11 3GF
Received 9 Dec 202022 Belgrave Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2UZ
Received 2 Sept 2005MAYFIELD REST HOME FLEET STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AG
Received 9 Mar 20212 Spalding Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 15 Jun 1998Caultons Field West of Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 15 Nov 2018Former Royal Mail Delivery Office The Crescent Spalding PE11 1SL
Received 1 Aug 2023Oaktree Close Off Cambridge Gardens Gosberton Spalding
Received 22 Oct 199621 FARTHINGALES SPALDING PE11 3AD
Received 7 Jan 2026Site between Wygate Park and Monks House Lane Spalding
Received 3 Jun 2004Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UF
Received 13 Jul 2021Land adjacent to The Limes Herring Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 2AA
Received 26 May 2010Land adj Dun Cow Public House Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding
Received 23 Feb 1998Casa Grande Chapelgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 2000Records 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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