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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 The Maples Fleet Hargate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 2001Broadgate House Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DB
Received 13 Mar 2007North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Jun 1998FIELD HOUSE HURDLETREE BANK WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SA
Received 11 Jun 20195 Tydd Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Aug 2005Land east of Peterspoint Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 1996Bicker Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XP
Received 3 Aug 2001Broadgate House & Site Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 199234 Daniels Crescent Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jul 200111 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SP
Received 15 Mar 2024Fenfield Cottage Gypsey Lane Shepeau Stow, Whaplode Drove Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Jun 19924 Albert Street Holbeach
Received 3 Dec 2008Crowland Caravans and Camping Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 10 Feb 2012THE WILLOWS MONKS HOUSE LANE SPALDING PE11 3LH
Received 16 Jul 2015The White House Chopdike Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JP
Received 22 Sept 2011Linden House High Road Whaplode Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 18 Feb 2000H Hargrave & Co, Brunel Road Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 8 Apr 1998Beech House 567 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 1994144 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 13 Nov 2012Crystal Inn 5 - 6 Churchgate Spalding
Received 5 Apr 20012 and 2A Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1992Winters Lane Storage Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BE
Received 18 May 20113 Normanton Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JJ
Received 31 Oct 2005North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NL
Received 16 Mar 2018Records 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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