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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
37,421 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
THE LIMES 12 DOUBLE STREET SPALDING PE11 2AA
Received 11 Jun 2020Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 2000Plot 1, Drawdyke Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 1994High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Apr 1995Land west Woolram Wygate Wygate Park Spalding
Received 13 Sept 2005Land east of former Plough Inn Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 16 Aug 2012TWIN OAKS 4 CRAWFORD GARDENS CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0AZ
Received 9 Jun 2020ACORN CHILDCARE LTD MAYTREE LODGE 41 ROMAN BANK SPALDING PE12 6EX
Received 8 Aug 2019Land adjacent: 20 20 Town Dam Lane Donington PE11 4TP
Received 18 Dec 2017Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 19946 WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BH
Received 14 Jun 2022The Woodlands Boston Road Gosberton
Received 5 Mar 2008Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 19964 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1991Land at Blackbird Close Crowland PE6 0BA
Received 5 Jun 2026Hallgate House Kingsgate Gedney Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0AF
Received 12 Mar 2003Alderlands Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AA
Received 9 Apr 1992Former works site junction of St Thomas' Road & Welland Close Spalding
Received 7 Jun 2004Chaucers Way Spalding
Received 29 Dec 2003Walnut Tree Farm Leaveslake Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QJ
Received 15 Sept 2011Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NE
Received 6 Nov 20011 Norwood Cottages Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs PE12 6SB
Received 22 Aug 2006Adjacent Poets Corner Bakestraw Gate Moulton
Received 10 Dec 2007Hollyhock Cottage Drove Road Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 8 Mar 2010Records 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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