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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TP
Received 23 Apr 2013Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NL
Received 29 Jun 2001Northolme 170 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jul 199850 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1995Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland PE6 0LX
Received 11 Oct 2018Adjacent Peace Haven 31 The Tenters Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AR
Received 30 Apr 2013Moulton Seas End Hall Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 2003Land adjoining and 63 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 10 Mar 1999Spalding Market 78 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AE
Received 19 Apr 2013THE BUNGALOW FULNEY LANE SOUTH SPALDING PE12 6FA
Received 30 Nov 2021Weston Hills Road B1165 Low Fulney Spalding
Received 24 Oct 2005GREEN ACRES PARK ROPERS GATE GEDNEY SPALDING
Received 15 Nov 2024Eastfields Luttongate Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QH
Received 29 Oct 20124 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SA
Received 30 Jun 2026198 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AD
Received 24 Apr 2013Whaplode Manor Manor House Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 1995Rear 71 Backgate Cowbit PE12 6AP
Received 16 May 2007Adjacent to 51 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6TD
Received 8 Aug 2024Land rear 32 Park Avenue Spalding
Received 5 Sept 2008Walnut Cottage Roman Bank Sutton Crosses
Received 15 Oct 2004Grange Farm Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EZ
Received 24 Oct 2013Adj. to Pinchbeck Road & Springfield Walk Spalding Lincs PE11 1GP
Received 9 Sept 2015WATERSIDE COTTAGE 76 SIX HOUSE BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QG
Received 7 Aug 2023The Long Sutton Butterfly and Wildlife Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LE
Received 10 Oct 2011Records 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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