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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Valencia Cranesgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Dec 199317 Longdon Close Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QX
Received 28 Sept 2006Rectory Lane Gedney Church End Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 1999Silverwood Garden Centre Brownsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AU
Received 17 Sept 2026WEVAHOME 43 DELPH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BX
Received 24 May 2017OLD SCHOOL HOUSE CHURCH STREET GEDNEY DAWSMERE SPALDING PE12 9NL
Received 27 Jan 2022Holly Tree Farm Moulton Eaugate Spalding PE12 0SZ
Received 3 Apr 201227 Albert Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2LF
Received 1 Jun 20071 MARSH ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JY
Received 5 Dec 2023Washway House Farm Washway Road Holbeach Spalding, Lincs
Received 3 Mar 1992Sugar Plum Barn Bells Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JG
Received 28 Apr 2003Double Street Spalding
Received 21 Oct 2002Land adjacent to 8 Clay Lake Spalding Lincs PE11 2QG
Received 1 Dec 2010Land between Wignals Gate Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 15 Feb 2007Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 1997Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jun 1998"Conifers" 31 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1992SEAS END HALL HALL LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LB
Received 3 Jul 2025Mole Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 10 Aug 2022A17 Moulton Marsh (OS 3532) Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 1999Land adjacent West Bank Sutton Bridge
Received 1 Jul 20041 Barbers Drove Crowland PE6 0BE
Received 4 Sept 2008The Applebarn Station Road Gedney Spalding PE12 0DD
Received 30 Sept 2009Former: South View Primary School Albion Street Crowland Spalding PE6 0EB
Received 10 May 2018Records 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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