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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36,582 approved · 4,440 refused · 1,332 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Millgate Whaplode St Catherines Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 199536 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XL
Received 31 Oct 20177 Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Nov 2013Mala Wala Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 9 Dec 2019GENESIS RESIDENTIAL HOME 2 STATION STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UQ
Received 7 Feb 2019Willow Cottage Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TT
Received 8 Jul 2009284 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Aug 200561 STANLEY DRIVE SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9XQ
Received 11 Feb 2021Grove Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 1996Holland House/Government Offices Junction High Street & Holland Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1HA
Received 5 Mar 20152 Canterbury Close Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1LL
Received 17 Apr 2000Highways Depot Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Apr 1994The Elms Broadgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0DE
Received 19 Nov 2010Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 30 Jun 2003Plots 2 and 3 Draw Dyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HR
Received 28 Feb 2019Homefields Watergate Quadring
Received 8 Oct 2008Plot 50 Wygate Park South Spalding
Received 15 May 2007Paga House Hulls Drove Postland Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JU
Received 29 Oct 1999Land off Lowgate Gosberton
Received 23 Jun 2008CROSSGATE FARM HOUSE 58 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SH
Received 25 Jan 2016CRAWFORD HOUSE SOUTH STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AJ
Received 14 Oct 2022Weydyke Bank Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 199774 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 19 Sept 2023122 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SF
Received 20 Oct 2020Records 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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