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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Red House Cottage Scoldhall Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 1998Former Nursery, Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 1995Adj. Childers 26 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6UA
Received 5 Oct 20212 Victoria Street Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 199720 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LU
Received 12 Sept 2006100 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SJ
Received 28 Sept 2026142 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QN
Received 12 Jul 2011Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jan 1995Land north of Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 23 May 2003Riverside Hotel 123 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DG
Received 29 Mar 2006Butters Group Kellet Gate Spalding PE12 6EH
Received 6 Jan 2015Plot 2 Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1998Land adjacent: 72 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 8 Jun 2016Land 102 and 105 London Road Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2007Seagate Farm 184 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AD
Received 27 Nov 2025CAWOOD HALL CAWOOD LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HB
Received 25 Jun 201811 Oakwood Park Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LY
Received 10 Mar 2010Old Gate Dairy, St James Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 1997Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 1999Peak Hill House Peak Hill Cowbit Spalding, Lincs PE12 6AW
Received 6 Oct 1993Princes Limited Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EQ
Received 9 Nov 2015Tower House, Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 1995Adjacent Cliftonville Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 1994Duke of York 106 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EY
Received 9 Jan 2023Records 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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