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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 - 21 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SQ
Received 23 May 2018Ash Tree House Birds Drove Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 6 Sept 1994Land off Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 1995Rhinestone Cottage Foxes Lowe Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jul 1992Bryony Cottage Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PB
Received 21 Dec 2009Adjacent 204 High Road Weston Spalding PE12 6JU
Received 12 Jul 201316 Station Road Long Sutton
Received 26 Sept 2005Land off New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 19 Mar 2004Common Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 1996Land Adjacent 44 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EF
Received 14 Aug 20194 Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4LX
Received 24 Apr 2013258 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 6 Apr 1992Dwelling at Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PJ
Received 18 Jul 2013Stonegate Cowbit PE12 6AH
Received 23 May 2001Tramore, Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Apr 1999Long Sutton CP School Dick Turpin Way Off Swapcote Lane Long Sutton, Spalding, Lincs
Received 21 Dec 199431 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DA
Received 23 Dec 2020RAF Holbeach Durhams Lane Dawsmere Lincs
Received 9 Mar 2000Land off Main Road Quadring Spalding
Received 11 Sept 202012 Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TW
Received 12 Jul 2012Coalbeach Lane Surfleet Spalding
Received 22 Mar 19937 THE HAYFIELDS SPALDING PE11 3FE
Received 29 Jan 2018Malting Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 21 Jan 2016Baileys Lane Holbeach Hurn Spalding LIncs PE12 8JP
Received 28 Feb 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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