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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
34,617 approved · 4,158 refused · 1,251 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot adjacent 26 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 21 Nov 2005Ryecroft Ryefield Lane Ravens Clough Gedney Fen
Received 23 Jul 2008Land off Back Gate Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6AP
Received 12 Apr 20004 Lilburn Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Nov 200136 PETTS LANE SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QB
Received 11 Jan 2022GREYSON HOSPITAL DROVE LITTLE SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EL
Received 28 Jul 2025Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 28 Sept 199573-75 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 19973 Meadowgate Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 2002North Wardentree Lane Spalding
Received 3 Feb 200599 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JL
Received 12 Oct 2004Mill Stones Roman Bank Long Sutton
Received 12 Nov 20031 PARK LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UE
Received 21 May 2020Onslow Farm St James Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs PE12 9AZ
Received 8 Feb 1995The Grove 42 Market Street Long Sutton
Received 2 Mar 20079 Carnoustie Crescent Spalding Lincs PE11 2SW
Received 5 Dec 200136/37 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Mar 1996THE MELROSE DOWSDALE BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TZ
Received 20 Feb 2026Rear: 29 Station Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BP
Received 26 Oct 201721 The Tenters Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 1995Elsom House Broad Street Spalding
Received 12 Feb 2004The Grove 42 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 10 Dec 2004Commence House 14 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 3 Feb 1998Land rear of 3 Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1UN
Received 10 Jul 2012Records 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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