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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
37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 - 47 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Mar 2000Rear of 7 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 2000Red Lion Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SU
Received 6 Dec 1993Jubilee Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 26 May 1999Former : Fire Station Double Street Spalding
Received 23 Feb 2009Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 13 Jan 2010Land north Vernatts Drain Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 4 Dec 200638 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1DW
Received 29 May 201316 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jun 20058 Winsover Centre Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1EJ
Received 20 Oct 2022Ashtree Farm Lambert Bank Gedney Hill PE12 0PR
Received 27 Apr 201831 Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs PE12 8BL
Received 10 May 2004Westgate (adj. Yews' yard) Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Oct 2000Adjacent General Stores and Post Office Hillgate Gedney Hill PE12 0NN
Received 17 Feb 2012Adjacent to The Golden Lion Public House Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 1 May 2025Adjacent Chartwell 83 Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 13 Apr 2007Ropers Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 1993D A Green Sons Ltd High Road Whaplode
Received 3 Dec 2007Plot 4, Delph Fields Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 1994Plot 3 Lincolnshire Gateway Business Park Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Feb 2025Land off Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 20 May 1992Grange Farm Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 2001Land parcel OS523 South Drove Quadring Low Fen
Received 11 Jul 2006101 The Woodlands Roman Bank Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LZ
Received 25 Feb 2005Records 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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