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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 4 Apr 1997Elizabethan Centre Parsons Lane Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TL
Received 18 Apr 20112 CLOVER WAY SPALDING PE11 3GD
Received 26 Sept 2023The Poplars Fulney Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 6BW
Received 26 Aug 200526A Stowgate Farm Deeping St James PE6 8RW
Received 30 Mar 2012Spar London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9ED
Received 28 Jun 20107 Laburnum Grove Spalding Lincs PE11 2LX
Received 12 Mar 200327 WEST COB GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QN
Received 28 Nov 2014Beechtree Farm, Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 199524 Coronation Avenue Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EP
Received 24 Jun 199332 Churchill Drive Spalding PE11 2RL
Received 13 Apr 2018THE ABBEYGATE RETIREMENT HOME HIGH STREET MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QB
Received 27 May 2014Rear of 17 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 200048A Sherwood Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 19929 Link Way Spalding Lincs PE11 2ED
Received 26 Aug 201158 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 1996Slane Lodge 59 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 6 Jan 2005Westgate Moulton Chapel
Received 20 Jun 2002Former Glen Farrow Premises 158 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UE
Received 21 Sept 20181 Bedford Place Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 199739 Albert Street Spalding PE11 2LD
Received 19 Aug 2024MARIERN MIDDLE DROVE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0AU
Received 14 May 2019Harrington Hall Nursery Little Marsh Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NW
Received 7 May 200431 Fen Road Holbeach
Received 21 Jun 2007Records 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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