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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Estella Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1HS
Received 8 Aug 2007King Johns Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 199532 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BJ
Received 28 Mar 20028 MANOR DRIVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LY
Received 22 Feb 2021Land off Carrington Road Spalding
Received 23 Oct 2006Plot 2, Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1UN
Received 20 Feb 1995Roman Bank Crosses Long Sutton
Received 11 Dec 200867 CHAPEL GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EF
Received 25 Aug 20173 and 4 South Drove West Road Spalding Common Spalding
Received 19 Aug 200317 Broad Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TB
Received 28 Apr 1994MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 5 Nov 2014The Neighbourhood Centre Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 199622A Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EJ
Received 11 Oct 2005Land to the East of Surfleet Bank and West of Woad Farm Surfleet
Received 12 Dec 202547 Nene Meadows Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 199218 Greenfields Holbeach
Received 8 Apr 2004Millgate Farm Millgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SF
Received 26 Jan 201625 CHURCH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LL
Received 27 Oct 202070 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 200534 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UA
Received 29 Jan 2026Former Garage off Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XR
Received 19 Aug 2014The Coach House Pulvertoft Hall Gedney Broadgate Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 9 Jun 201630 Church Street Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Aug 200021 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DH
Received 20 Mar 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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