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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37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Cowpers Gate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Sept 200415 Estella Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1HS
Received 18 Apr 200786 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 2000156 Pennygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1LX
Received 29 Oct 200152 COBGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UL
Received 25 Apr 2024Spalding Telephone Exchange Winsover Road Spalding
Received 27 Mar 200810 The Tilney Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Aug 2011The Limes High Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 17 Jan 200027 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HL
Received 11 Nov 2019Charmar Cranesgate South Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SN
Received 17 Jun 2022The Limes 3 London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 30 Sept 202512 Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NF
Received 8 Nov 2002Land off Malting Lane (Phase 2) Donington Spalding
Received 27 Jun 2025SYCAMORES BACK BANK WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TT
Received 27 Aug 2019Aisling Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PE
Received 20 Jan 2017Between 90 and 92 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 21 Jun 2007The Poplars North Road Gedney Hill
Received 13 Feb 2008Land South of Clay Drove Spalding PE11 3NB
Received 27 Oct 2021Redi-Peeled Potatoes Oldgate St James Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 27 Aug 199211 Wrights Mews 12A Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 27 Jul 2021Holbeach St Marks Primary School St Marks Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DZ
Received 22 Nov 2012Thurslie Cottage Dowsdale Bank Crowland Spalding PE6 0NF
Received 20 Mar 2025Land off Maple Way Donington Spalding PE11 4XL
Received 29 Nov 202288 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 14 Jun 2004Records 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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