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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
84 and 86 Halmergate Spalding
Received 17 Jan 2008129 - 137 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 6 Nov 2006THE BAYS 33 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 19 Nov 2018PASTURE FARM WESTDALE DROVE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XG
Received 21 May 202124 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 26 Jul 2000Brennans Bar Winsover Road Spalding
Received 22 Sept 2006Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 12 Jul 2004Askedale Broadgate Sutton St James
Received 16 Jan 2006Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RR
Received 31 May 2017Anchor Inn 280 and 282 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SH
Received 1 Dec 2023National Westminster Bank 25 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Nov 199311 St. Guthlacs Close Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ES
Received 2 Apr 2001Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 199280 STATION STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UJ
Received 4 Sept 2023Land west of Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Mar 1993WAR MEMORIAL SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING
Received 12 Sept 2018Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Haverfield Road Spalding
Received 20 Dec 2007Barns Adj. 66 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 29 Nov 2021Land adj. to 5 New Road New Road Spalding PE11 1BS
Received 16 Oct 2024Spalding Lifestyle 210 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PB
Received 5 Dec 2013Plots 4, 5 and 6, Holland Park (east: local distributor road) Hawthorn Bank Spalding, Lincs
Received 21 Oct 1992Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Oct 1990De Keys Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow
Received 17 Apr 2007Nene Lodge East Bank Wingland Sutton Bridge
Received 7 Sept 2004Records 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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