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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
'Tumut' Charter Lane Long Sutton Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 23 Dec 1999Sandpit Farm 220 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 2 Aug 2013Jecady Blazegate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9HJ
Received 27 Jul 2012Land rear 146 and 142 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 14 Oct 2005Land at Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 1996HOLLAND HOUSE 17 HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1TW
Received 10 Feb 20153-5 Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 23 May 2003Norfolk House Farm Gedney Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 9PB
Received 16 Mar 1995Former Finnings Site Double Street Spalding
Received 9 Oct 2006Whinfell Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8DS
Received 7 Feb 2007"The Barn" Eaudike Farm Watergate Quadring Eaudike Spalding
Received 28 Sept 19934 Backgate Cowbit PE12 6AP
Received 15 Nov 200613 Lowgate Crescent Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 1995Southdown 34 Main Road Quadring Spalding
Received 29 Jun 200114 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 7 Sept 2005CONNAUGHT HOUSE 18 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DF
Received 4 Nov 2014HSBC 59 High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EB
Received 23 May 2013Off Chapelgate Sutton St. James Spalding
Received 21 Feb 1992Silvadene 126 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 17 Jan 2007THE VICARAGE CHURCH WALK HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DT
Received 4 Apr 2023WESTBOURNE LODGE 13 COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RD
Received 22 Sept 201749A St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XT
Received 14 Oct 2010Unit 5 Wygate Park Spalding
Received 23 Mar 2006Adj Mortimer The Raceground Spalding PE11 3AP
Received 15 Dec 2020Records 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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