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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
30,340 approved · 3,792 refused · 1,101 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land East of Guanockgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincolnshire PE13 4PL
Received 11 Apr 2024Unit 42B Springfields Shopping Outlet Camel Gate Spalding Lincs PE12 6EU
Received 12 Apr 2010The Long Sutton Wildlife and Butterfly Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LE
Received 10 Oct 2011St Nicholas House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3HA
Received 31 Mar 2005202 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PB
Received 15 May 2012COBBLESTONES MARSH ROAD WESTON SPALDING PE12 6HH
Received 19 Oct 2022Anglia Motel A17 Trunk Road Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Nov 1999Ivy Cottage Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 16 Aug 2007Rear of The Chestnuts Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 20 May 20257 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XL
Received 9 Nov 2021Rear of 16 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9JF
Received 20 Mar 2024Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Feb 1998FARTHINGS LEADENHALL ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EY
Received 20 Nov 2023The Sycamores Churchgate Whaplode
Received 28 Nov 2006Plot 1, The Sidings Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 2001Green Lane Spalding
Received 23 Apr 2003Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 2000Queen Mother Nature Reserve Lowgate Gedney Dyke Spalding
Received 23 Jul 2025Red Cow Paddock Church Street Donington
Received 24 Dec 2007Park Farm Banks Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3BJ
Received 3 Sept 2026THE VICARAGE 5 CHURCH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LL
Received 25 Nov 202161 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs. PE11 4EW
Received 20 May 2003Woad Barn Hospital Drove Little Sutton
Received 7 Apr 2004Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6HP
Received 4 May 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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