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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rose Cottage King John Bank Walpole St Andrew Wisbech PE14 7JS
Received 5 Oct 201269 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BX
Received 22 Jun 2004376 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs PE11 3LL
Received 9 Jul 201215 EDINBURGH DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2SA
Received 26 Jun 2015Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Sept 1995133 St James Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 2005Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jul 1993Fleet Road Industrial Estate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Oct 1992Cover House Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ZN
Received 28 Aug 2015West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 7 Sept 199332 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6PN
Received 9 Sept 201965 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Oct 19985 SLEEPERS CLOSE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9FD
Received 30 Sept 20152 Thorpe Avenue Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XN
Received 22 May 2007BLEU RAYE FARM MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RY
Received 7 Jul 2025B G Transco Depot Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 11 May 1999Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QN
Received 4 Jan 2000The Old Cottages Opposite The Post Office Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jul 1998RED HOUSE FARM WYKES LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SE
Received 31 Jul 2023South of The Parkway Holland Park Spalding
Received 26 Nov 1991No.s 10 and 35 Parklands Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1992Bedford Court 10 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 1994Premises between Nos. 310 & 314 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 20008 WARGATE WAY GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NH
Received 18 Mar 2014Records 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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