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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Adj. Fairfield House Thorpes Lane Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RS
Received 16 May 2025Junction with A16 Drain Bank Cowbit
Received 21 Dec 2007Chestnut Farm House Main Road Hop Pole Spalding Lincs PE11 3HH
Received 18 Jan 2017Sutton Bridge Power Station East Bank Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 9 Sept 1996Former Warehouse Swan Street Spalding
Received 16 Mar 200418 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AP
Received 12 Jan 2012Adjacent Greenacres Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Sept 2004Holbeach St Matthews Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Sept 2011Land at The Sidings Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 200118 London Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 26 Sept 20251 Main Road Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Jan 200058-62 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 6 Jun 200564 CASSWELL DRIVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QW
Received 15 Nov 2021Bank House Farm The Delph Spalding PE11 3JH
Received 17 Apr 2009South Holland Enterprise Park Enterprise Way Wardentree Lane Spalding, Lincs
Received 4 Mar 1993Former Finning Site Westlode Street/Double Street Spalding
Received 27 Sept 200583 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QQ
Received 4 Oct 1993The Rose & Crown Public House Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 199519 to 21 Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AF
Received 20 Jun 2011The Black Bungalow Boston Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NR
Received 10 Jul 201224 Ashby Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QR
Received 21 Sept 2016East Side Short Drove Gosberton Risegate
Received 4 Feb 2002THE YEWS QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SJ
Received 25 Nov 2019North Drove Spalding
Received 27 Sept 2006Records 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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