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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
36,582 approved · 4,440 refused · 1,332 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear of Seaview Lodge Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 22 Aug 2001221 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TJ
Received 9 Nov 2018St Nicholas Hall The Vista Spalding
Received 31 Mar 2004Fleet Road/Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 199730 Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AJ
Received 25 Mar 2009WILLIAM STUKELEY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 5 Nov 20246 SHORT STREET SPALDING PE11 1EW
Received 6 Feb 2018SHOP AND PREMISES 14 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 17 May 2021The Gables Millgate Whaplode St Catherine
Received 21 Dec 2005Broadview Stonegate Gedney Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0BY
Received 3 Jan 20023 Sycamore View Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 2004Red Cow Hotel 8 High Street Donington Spalding
Received 26 Feb 20212 & 2A Victoria Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 30 May 2000Cloudberry East Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 20 Jan 1993WATERSIDE LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 11 Sept 2014Home Farm, Wingland Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 1997'Westlands', 122 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 199691 CHAPEL GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EF
Received 8 Aug 2019THE ELMS 35 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TE
Received 24 Apr 2020Baulkins Drove Sutton St James
Received 5 Dec 2005THE COPSE CHURCH WAY TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5SA
Received 11 Oct 2024Bluehouse Farmyard Main Road Deeping St. Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 2000The Hollies Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TB
Received 6 Nov 200118-19 Broad Street Spalding PE11 1TB
Received 5 Dec 2023Records 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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