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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
37,472 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lloyds TSB 36 - 37 Hall Place Spalding
Received 11 Dec 2006Off Church Lane Lutton SPALDING PE12 9NU
Received 27 Sept 2017Commercial Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HE
Received 23 Oct 201244 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 1994Woodbine Cottage Roman Bank Holbeach Clough
Received 13 Mar 2006131 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UE
Received 12 Dec 202490 Park Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QY
Received 18 May 2009'Makenville', 17 Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 1994Adjacent Ashgrove Lodge Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BZ
Received 30 Jan 2018Common Farm Hospital Drove Little Sutton Long Sutton
Received 30 Aug 2002Plot 4 The Business Park Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 18 Jun 2007Land at Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8AP
Received 4 Apr 2022The Chappell Centre Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 11 Jan 2001Lakeside Lodge Main Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 18 Jun 19925 Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 2001Land at Hundreds Lane Little Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 27 Aug 1997NUTTEN STOVEN RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME 81 BOSTON ROAD SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AA
Received 29 Nov 2018Seagate House 6 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 31 Mar 2006UNIT 5, Venture Court Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3JG
Received 3 Jun 2014Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove
Received 23 Apr 20031 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 1JJ
Received 26 Oct 2023The Chippings New Road Sutton Bridge
Received 8 Oct 200816 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Nov 2001The Chestnuts Topsgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BS
Received 22 Oct 2012Records 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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