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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37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Guanockgate Road Sutton St Edmund
Received 1 Oct 200742 ROEBURN WAY SPALDING PE11 3ZW
Received 24 Jul 20152 Maple Way Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XL
Received 15 Aug 2012Off Bette Camplings Close Drawdike Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 2011'Hagbeach Bungalow' Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SN
Received 7 May 20096 Hoekman Way Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3HE
Received 29 Jun 2000Former Finnings Site Westlode Street/Double Street Spalding
Received 29 Dec 2006Lucksbridge Nuseries Ltd Broadgate Drove Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XU
Received 16 Jan 2012Land off Bow Gate Gosberton
Received 2 Jun 200320 MELVILLE WAY SPALDING PE11 1YH
Received 31 Jan 202337 OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 2 Mar 2020BRIDGE COTTAGE WARGATE FIELD LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HJ
Received 20 Sept 202239 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EF
Received 28 Sept 1994Land at the junction of High Road and Broadgate Weston Spalding
Received 22 Mar 199385 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 29 Oct 2012Wilson House 64 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2XT
Received 5 Oct 2021Corner of Station Road and Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Aug 200923 CHILTERN DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DD
Received 14 Apr 2025GLENDALE 61 STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BS
Received 6 Jul 20178 Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EG
Received 11 Sept 2007202 Boston Road North Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AG
Received 27 May 20101 Chiltern Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2DD
Received 14 Nov 20062 HIGH STREET MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6NL
Received 4 Jan 2023Leadenhall Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8HB
Received 21 Dec 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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