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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
33,573 approved · 4,048 refused · 1,227 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 10 Jan 2003Cleylands Burr Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6AZ
Received 2 Mar 2011Plot 3, Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jun 1999Adj. 1 Roman Bank Common Road Moulton Seas End Spalding
Received 23 Jul 2019The Bungalow 16 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AE
Received 1 Apr 2011Manor House Park Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 1998Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 14 Sept 20268 High Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NN
Received 30 Mar 2010Power Station Site East Nene Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 23 Jan 1997West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Oct 1996Threeways Proudfoot Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NQ
Received 31 Jan 200516 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DA
Received 3 Apr 2008Whitewell Lodge Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding
Received 3 Jun 199835 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 28 May 2002Land North of Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 18 Oct 2021New Holme Quadring Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 2004Spalding High School Stonegate Spalding
Received 21 Oct 2003Bernard Matthews Food Limited Cowards Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SP
Received 3 Aug 20167 Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs PE12 8BL
Received 29 Apr 2005White House, Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Apr 1998Westlyn Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 24 Mar 2010WITTEMAN NURSERIES SOUTH DROVE PODE HOLE SPALDING PE11 3BD
Received 5 Mar 2025UNIVERSITY ACADEMY LONG SUTTON 84 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LF
Received 2 Apr 2024West Sutton Bridge Power Station Sutton Bridge
Received 27 Dec 2006Records 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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