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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Belvedere Close Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 1993The Offices Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 8 Jul 2015Land Off St Margarets Quadring Spalding PE11 4PR
Received 10 May 202313 Abbey Walk/36 South Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 28 Feb 2019St Nicholas CP School Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jun 1999Rear 42 West Street Crowland PE6 0ED
Received 20 Jul 2007Petals Nursery Weston Hills Road Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6NE
Received 16 May 201377 Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 0XF
Received 22 May 1997Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 1 Nov 2018Rear of 15, 17 & 19 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DD
Received 18 Jun 202153 Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 25 Feb 2004Cobweb Cottage Hockles Gate Fleet, Spalding Lincs. PE13 8LF
Received 8 May 2000Park Farm Park Lane Surfleet
Received 23 May 20022 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING
Received 28 Aug 2015The Bridge Hotel Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jul 1994Tudor Lodge Fen Road Holbeach
Received 27 Mar 200224 & 24a Market Place Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4ST
Received 24 May 2023Magnolia House High Road Whaplode Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 6 Dec 1999Land off Cobgate Whaplode
Received 15 Dec 2004Plot 5, Church Way Tydd St Mary Spalding, Lincs
Received 15 Apr 1999Plot 1 Malting Lane Donington Spalding, Lincs
Received 9 Jan 1992THOMAS COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TF
Received 21 Jul 20231 THE CHASE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BW
Received 22 Jan 2026Greenacres Fen Road Holbeach
Received 7 May 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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