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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Hallgate Holbeach
Received 3 Nov 2006139 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 2002SPALDING GENTLEMANS SOCIETY 9a BROAD STREET SPALDING PE11 1TB
Received 21 Sept 2022Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Aug 1992The Vicarage Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 199123 High Street Spalding
Received 7 May 200321 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PE
Received 28 Sept 2007Power Station Site East Nene Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 23 Jan 1997Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Haverfield Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XP
Received 26 Oct 2009Garden adj. Laburnum House Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jul 1995Land off Casswell Drive Quadring Spalding
Received 7 Jun 2018Eaton House Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 13 Mar 2003Church Gate House Church Gate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BZ
Received 21 May 2002CHESTNUT FARM 216 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 11 Aug 20214 ESTELLA WAY SPALDING PE11 1HS
Received 31 Oct 2016311 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DF
Received 18 Feb 2013Four Acres Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QN
Received 10 Apr 2018Cowpers Gate (South) Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AY
Received 5 Mar 2021Woodbine House 159 Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 29 Nov 2012Holbeach Warehouse Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 26 Sept 2013Aldi Foodstore Winsover Road Spalding PE11 2XY
Received 23 Aug 2016694 Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6JA
Received 21 Nov 202315 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DQ
Received 12 Sept 2023484 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 6 May 1998Records 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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