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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
37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Meat Plant Fulney Lane Spalding
Received 1 Apr 20084 SOLENT DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3BF
Received 1 May 202088 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 23 Aug 200412 Vicarage Close Cowbit Spalding PE12 6XW
Received 7 Feb 202033 Queens Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2JJ
Received 11 Oct 2005Bullocks Short Gate Gedney Broadgate Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 22 Aug 2022Cherry Tree Nursery Water Gate Quadring
Received 1 Feb 2007The Old Farmhouse Black Hole Drove West Pinchbeck PE11 3QL
Received 25 Mar 200412 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4ND
Received 3 Jan 2014133 St James Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BA
Received 9 Jan 2007St Marys Church Long Sutton
Received 18 Sept 2012Land: 2 Carrington Road Carrington Road Spalding PE11 1LY
Received 27 Sept 201849 Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AL
Received 2 Jul 200444A GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JN
Received 21 Sept 2015IVY HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LJ
Received 7 Jan 2019Small Holding, Seagate Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding
Received 8 Jul 1997New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1995The Welland Public House 66 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 19974 Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 2000HORSEMOOR HOUSE HORSEMOOR DROVE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EY
Received 26 Feb 20201 - 2 Hall Place Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Aug 1998ROZEL 7 ROMAN BANK SARACENS HEAD - EAST SPALDING PE12 8AS
Received 7 Aug 201815 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HF
Received 27 Jul 202669B Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JB
Received 23 Jan 2003Records 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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