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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
36,340 approved · 4,395 refused · 1,312 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sholtsgate Farmhouse Sholtsgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 1998Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Feb 199981 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JQ
Received 20 Jan 2017Natwest Bank Market Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1ST
Received 24 Sept 2012Spalding Grammar School Priory Road Spalding
Received 16 Nov 200538 WELBY DRIVE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HU
Received 23 Jan 201812 High Street Donington
Received 3 Oct 2003Land off Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Aug 2000Woodville House 40 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AG
Received 23 Aug 2022Land off Station Road Hungate Surfleet
Received 30 Apr 20025 Church Street Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2005152A Pennygate Spalding PE11 1LX
Received 25 Sept 2012Quadring Road Donington
Received 28 Oct 20162A THE CHASE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RS
Received 9 Jun 202219 Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Dec 2002Land off New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9RQ
Received 28 Feb 202335B SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XL
Received 30 Apr 2020Land off Woods Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 19974 Congreves Close Lutton
Received 18 Nov 2002Rearing Farm Chapel Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 16 Nov 1998Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 9 May 2016The Five Bells Public House Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NP
Received 3 Jul 2009Baytree House 109 Fleet Road Fleet SPALDING PE12 8LD
Received 22 Jun 2016Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 2001Records 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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