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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37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Mar 2000FENDYKE FARM WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PP
Received 21 Jun 2017THE LAURELS OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 1 Feb 2016Ashtree House Stumps Lane Spalding
Received 30 Apr 2007Poppy Fields Caravan Park Fields Farm South Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9XT
Received 9 Jul 2026Boud Minerals & Polymers Warehouse West Bank Road Sutton Bridge Salding PE12 9UR
Received 15 Oct 2026Rear of Carlton 156 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 30 Nov 2015Former Finnings Site Westlode Street Spalding
Received 8 May 2006Plots 2-7 Stonegate Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Jul 1998Land Adj. 62 Water Gate Quadring Spalding
Received 14 Oct 2024Newland 11A Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JW
Received 7 Jun 20171 STURTON WAY LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BZ
Received 5 Nov 2019Nursery, Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 1993145 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PJ
Received 3 Aug 2007Rear 2 Kings Road Spalding
Received 28 Jul 200430 Postland Road Crowland Spalding PE6 0JB
Received 1 Jun 2026Coronation House Dowsdale Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 4 Sept 199212 Heathfield Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 2012Site to the South West of Spalding with Access from The Broadway to the North and B1172 to the South Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 30 Apr 20142 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JW
Received 25 Feb 201549 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 15 Mar 1994Adj. 123 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jan 1999THE GOLDEN BALL RIVER BANK SPALDING PE11 3AA
Received 8 Jun 2015Land off Station Road Gedney
Received 2 Mar 2006Records 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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