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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
50 DANIELS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DN
Received 16 Mar 2015Water Lane Nurseries Low Road Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 19971 Rose Leigh Way Spalding
Received 25 Nov 2005Off Old Fendike Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 1999Land off Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund
Received 27 Nov 1995The Brambles Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JU
Received 10 Dec 2019Partridge Grove Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Lincs
Received 14 Jun 2000"The Jolly Farmer" Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 199392 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HY
Received 13 Jul 2011Land adjacent 39 West Street Long Sutton
Received 4 Aug 2005Janfield Nursery Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 2001Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JP
Received 22 Nov 2012Rooster Hill Farm Weydyke Bank Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QR
Received 8 Feb 2007Land adjacent 73 Broadgate Whaplode Drove
Received 9 Jul 200727A Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 1999Dunsmere Daniels Gate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DT
Received 21 Mar 2019SPALDING NEWS 24 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SS
Received 6 Feb 2015HOLMELEIGH FARM HUNTSGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0DJ
Received 11 Jun 2015The Old Rectory Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 31 May 1994Horseshoe Bridge Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3BE
Received 12 Dec 2012The Red Cow Public house High Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TA
Received 17 Jan 2011WAKEFIELDS SUTTON ROAD SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HU
Received 23 Jun 2021Washway Road Saracens Head Whaplode Lincs
Received 21 Jan 1999Pinchbeck Hall Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jun 1997Records 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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