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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Glebe Farm Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 199714 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 29 Jul 202478 St Thomas' Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Mar 200013 The Parkway Spalding Lincs PE11 3EE
Received 16 Jan 20122 Willow Walk Spalding Lincs PE11 1UX
Received 3 Aug 201237 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 8 Mar 2011Ivanda Nursery Monks House Lane Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3LH
Received 18 Oct 2024ANGLIA MOTEL WASHWAY ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LT
Received 3 Oct 2014Ash Court Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XJ
Received 10 Aug 2000Willesby Coach House Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 3 Jun 1993Ranbys Corner 26 Chapel Street Crowland PE6 0AR
Received 22 Feb 2018Wimpy Bar 20 Market Place Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1SU
Received 24 Dec 2013Lilac House Herring Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ST
Received 16 Aug 2024Kirk Hill Farm 355 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding PE11 4ER
Received 3 Oct 2025Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 20 Nov 1997Rear of 175 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 2UN
Received 3 Sept 202112 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 199456 Park Close Spalding PE11 1PR
Received 1 Mar 201344 Station Road Surfleet SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 8 Nov 2017Millgrave House High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 9 Jul 2013FORMER WELLAND HOSPITAL ROMAN BANK SPALDING
Received 1 May 2019Little Insight Counter Drain Tongue End Spalding Lincs PE11 3JJ
Received 6 Dec 201645 Old Fendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6DD
Received 2 Jun 2025Threeways 3 Luttongate Gedney Hill
Received 14 Aug 2002Records 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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