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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
117 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LF
Received 26 Mar 2026North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NL
Received 14 Aug 201812 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UA
Received 27 Feb 2024Lowgate Grange Lowgate Fleet Spalding PE12 8LN
Received 12 Oct 2012Hallgate Fleet
Received 18 May 200543 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2EQ
Received 25 Apr 201713 Kemp Street Crowland PE6 0HE
Received 10 Aug 20011 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 11 Mar 201314 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 5 May 199574 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JR
Received 19 Jun 2018Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3HA
Received 10 Jul 2024Maisdyke Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NH
Received 15 Jul 2013Sweetlands Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BD
Received 22 May 2013London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 2001The Bungalow High Road Whaplode Spalding, Lincs. PE12 6TJ
Received 11 Feb 20002 Fengate Drove Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6DJ
Received 19 Jun 2025Hoddins Way Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JB
Received 4 Aug 2025A16 Cowbit Road/A1175 Roundabout Spalding PE12 6FY
Received 1 Apr 2021GARNSGATE HALL FARM LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 5 Jun 20196 Sir Isaac Newton Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7QH
Received 22 Jul 2003248 PARK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QT
Received 26 Oct 2015148 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 1998DGM Growers Ltd Dozens Bank Pode Hole
Received 19 May 2006Hightoft House Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding
Received 4 Feb 1993Records 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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