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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Welland House Marsh Drove Surfleet Marsh Spalding PE11 4DW
Received 5 Nov 2013JZ Flowers SuperFlora Washway Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 19 Jun 2023St Nicholas Church Hall The Vista Churchgate Spalding
Received 24 Jul 20069 Ambury Gardens Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0ET
Received 27 Mar 200729 Ashby Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QR
Received 16 Jul 199729 Church Green Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Dec 1993Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YA
Received 21 May 2013London Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 19 Mar 2001Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 1999Poplar Farm Old Fendyke Road Sutton St James Spalding
Received 16 Feb 19996 Middle Road Whaplode Spalding, Lincs.
Received 4 Feb 20032 MIDDLE ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TW
Received 12 Mar 2021THE LODGE 18 SHIVEAN GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PL
Received 16 Jan 2019STATION HOUSE KINGS ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QB
Received 23 Jun 2021West of The Farm House Kings Gate Gedney (Black Lion End) Spalding
Received 6 Mar 1998Statech UK Ltd 198 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AD
Received 15 Oct 201412 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1998Land off St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Feb 1995Crossgate Weston Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6HW
Received 30 Sept 2026Walnut Cottage 131 Lutton Gate Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QJ
Received 4 Nov 2010Land Between 93 St Thomas Road and Briton Court Spalding
Received 17 Mar 2004Rear 28 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate
Received 6 Nov 2008Site to South West of Spalding with access from The Broadway to the North and B1172 to the South Spalding
Received 23 Apr 2014293 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 1 Nov 1994Records 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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