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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plots 14-18 Machins Site North Parade Holbeach Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Jul 1991Old A17 Gedney Spalding
Received 29 Jan 19938 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XL
Received 14 Feb 2018Adjacent: 117 Albion Street Spalding PE11 2BA
Received 6 Feb 2017MILL HOUSE LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 2 Feb 2016St John The Baptist CE Primary School Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 1JQ
Received 28 Dec 201218 Wygate Meadows Spalding Lincs PE11 1XZ
Received 1 Aug 2016West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NT
Received 15 Jun 2001off Bakestraw Gate Moulton Spalding PE12 6QQ
Received 28 Nov 2016Short Street Depot Spalding
Received 9 Dec 1991Caravan 68 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 4 Oct 2024ROSECOTT FARM DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ND
Received 28 May 2021Adj. The Old Brickyard Farmhouse Peartree House Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DW
Received 12 Feb 2024Land adj. 83 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 199890 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Jan 2000Adjacent: Fordfield House 51 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TD
Received 1 Jun 201714 WEST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 11 Jul 2018Phase 3, off Royce Road Spalding (Site A)
Received 2 Sept 199386a GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JU
Received 23 Mar 201730/33 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 1999Land fronting Kirkgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TE
Received 20 Aug 2015Plot 7, Cherry Croft Wygate Park (Phase 7A) Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1997Plots 48-63 Daniels Acre Lilburn Drive Spalding, Lincs
Received 17 Feb 199343 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TG
Received 12 Dec 2022Records 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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