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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
73 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HY
Received 2 Feb 200544 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PH
Received 25 Apr 200542-44 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DA
Received 17 Feb 2022The Hedgerows Sutton Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EW
Received 4 Aug 2004Maud Cottage 95 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 0XD
Received 1 Jul 2010Stockwell Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs, PE12 8AX
Received 27 Sept 1993'Barford', Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jul 1997Old Pack House Cheal Road Surfleet
Received 24 Jan 2008Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UF
Received 18 Oct 2016The Crooked Billet Church End Fleet Holbeach Lincs PE12 8NQ
Received 11 May 2001The Blacksmiths Cottage 2 Swapcote Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HD
Received 24 Aug 2007Building plot Curlew Drive Cowbit PE12 6FB
Received 7 Jul 2004The Old Coach House 8 High Street Moulton
Received 7 Jun 2007VICKERS FARM WASHWAY ROAD MOULTON MARSH SPALDING
Received 5 Oct 2018Horseshoe Garage Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 22 Oct 200789 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 26 Feb 2003Anglia Motel Washway Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LT
Received 23 Jun 2026Land opposite Sparrow Cottage Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 3 Nov 201543 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 4 Apr 2008The Glebe Rectory Road Tydd St Mary
Received 11 May 200636 East Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EN
Received 9 Jan 1995Parishes of Moulton and Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 200011 & 11A Chapel Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1996Pinchbeck West CE Primary School West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 26 Apr 1993Records 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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