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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Roman Bank Spalding PE11 2HN
Received 19 Nov 2014199 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 3LJ
Received 2 Mar 2015Rear 10 Carrington Road Spalding
Received 21 Jan 2008Land Stonegate Cowbit PE12 6AH
Received 10 Jan 200532 Pennygate Spalding
Received 22 Oct 2008Bridge House Park Lane Surfleet
Received 12 Sept 2008Co-operative Retail Services Ltd West Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BN
Received 13 Nov 2013Adj. 4 The Laurels Holbeach Spalding
Received 20 Apr 2022SPALDING GRAMMAR SCHOOL PRIORY ROAD SPALDING PE11 2XH
Received 14 Aug 201815 Fennell Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 1992North of Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8LA
Received 21 Sept 20234 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1NX
Received 22 May 1992The Lodge 7 Halmergate Spalding
Received 19 Mar 2001Harrington House Broad Lane Moulton Spalding, Lincs
Received 29 Jun 1999Adjacent to The Chestnuts Church End Fleet Spalding PE12 8NQ
Received 16 Oct 2024Cedar House 1 Park Lane Surfleet
Received 7 Jan 2004Cuckoo Bridge Farm Cuckoo Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jul 1993Land south of Glennys Cottages Thary Lane Surfleet
Received 13 Feb 2003Silverdale Veterinary Surgery 21/23 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Feb 1994Parkers Yard, Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 19971 Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 2005Plots 1-5, Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 May 199920 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 20078 Langwith Gardens Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JL
Received 27 Jul 2001Records 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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