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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
31,675 approved · 3,877 refused · 1,145 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AB
Received 25 Nov 2019Former Library Church Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LL
Received 29 Mar 20212 HERDSMANS CLOSE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3AE
Received 16 Sept 2022The Stables Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JU
Received 28 Aug 200338 & 40 Baulkins Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JX
Received 5 Oct 202124 Market Place Spalding PE11 1SS
Received 28 Dec 20113 Harlequin Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3GL
Received 17 Dec 2013Sarnia Stockwell Gate Whaplode
Received 11 Feb 200283 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JB
Received 3 Jul 2006Corner of Cheal Road/Saltfleet Lane Gosberton Fen Spalding
Received 28 Apr 202255 Cathedral Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1PG
Received 17 Apr 1997123 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LD
Received 9 Jul 202118 19 Broad Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TB
Received 26 Feb 200725 Market Place Long Sutton
Received 20 Aug 2002111 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 19 Nov 2012Somerset House Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 1997Adjacent 5 Puddingpoke Lane Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HZ
Received 13 Nov 201524 to 26 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EJ
Received 2 May 2012Adjacent 35 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 7 Jul 2006Dial Hall Station Street Donington Spalding
Received 2 Jan 2001Settlers Lodge Roman Bank Long Sutton
Received 20 Feb 2008Park House 105 High Road Moulton
Received 23 May 2006Site to South West of Spalding with access from Broadway to the North & B1172 to the South Spalding
Received 30 Jan 2026Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 2013Records 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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