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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
34,314 approved · 4,127 refused · 1,243 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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6 Lucerne Close Spalding Lincs PE11 3GE
Received 1 Jun 200922 BALMORAL AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2RN
Received 5 Oct 2018Land off Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 17 Oct 2007Horse and Groom 65 High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7ED
Received 30 Jul 2012SWEETLANDS SALTFLEET LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BD
Received 15 Apr 2014CHATHAM HOUSE 216 BOSTON ROAD NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AG
Received 25 Nov 2022Plots 644-645, Stanley Drive Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Apr 1997ASHGROVE LODGE AUSTENDYKE ROAD WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6BZ
Received 15 Aug 2017Roman Bank Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 1996Holbeach Hurn Village Hall Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn
Received 29 Jul 200860 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Dec 1999Magpie Lodge Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XL
Received 26 Oct 2012School Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1997Orchard Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3EN
Received 28 Sept 2006St Johns Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jun 1997Whaplode Manor Manor House Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 1995TREES DAM GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QL
Received 11 Sept 20252 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 27 Nov 2009Land East of Chestnut Terrace Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 7 Oct 202014 Rotten Row Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RH
Received 24 Nov 199532-33 Hall Place Spalding PE11 1SG
Received 22 Jul 2021Holly Cottage Roman Bank Saracens Head
Received 23 May 2007Gleed Girls School Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2EH
Received 16 Nov 2011Glebe Farm Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 1996Records 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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