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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Market Place/The Chase Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 1999MADALON GLENSIDE SOUTH WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NH
Received 3 May 2017Land adjoiningThe Old Homestead High Road Whaplode
Received 28 Mar 2002THE BUNGALOW WINSLOW GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8LS
Received 17 Aug 20154 Bensgate Road Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 1998Chatterton Water Tower Winsover Road Spalding
Received 31 Jul 2002WARRENS REST CAPES ENTRY COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AG
Received 17 Nov 2016Grange Farm Fisher's Gate Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Apr 199934 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QA
Received 22 Nov 20167 Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 19 May 1995Pygott & Crone 10 Bridge Street Spalding PE11 1XA
Received 12 Feb 2009Off Churchgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 1993Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 2001Plots 2 & 3 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 12 Nov 1999Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Oct 2000The Chappell Centre Pincheck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 2013Land adjacent 31 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 17 May 20074 Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Sept 2003Woolworths 1-3 High Street Holbeach
Received 30 Aug 2006Plot 9, Chapel Gardens Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 199915 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 25 Sept 2017CHARMWOOD PLACE 287 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LR
Received 31 Jan 2019WELLAND HOUSE 30 HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1UB
Received 29 Jul 201512 Julias Mead Spalding Lincs PE11 1RS
Received 19 Dec 2007Records 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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