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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Northholme North Road Gedney Hill
Received 26 Sept 2005Pt. O.S. 7022 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 1994Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 1995The Old Vicarage Old Vicarage Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9LU
Received 26 Sept 201948 STATION STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UJ
Received 3 Sept 2015High Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1994Prospect House Moulton Chapel Road Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 16 Sept 199641 AUSTENDYKE ROAD WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6BX
Received 2 Mar 202329 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 3 Jun 2025323 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3LW
Received 3 Feb 200918-19 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 2001109 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 2 Feb 202151 Leamlands Lutton Marsh
Received 5 Apr 2005Glen Farm Station Road Surfleet
Received 21 Feb 200316 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LE
Received 2 Mar 2001Land at 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 2010Rear of Lincs Forage Limited Sunrise Farm Ravens Bank Sutton St James PE12 8PT
Received 13 Nov 2023Land at West Bank Crowland Lincs PE6 0HP
Received 5 Jun 199723 Chestnut Avenue Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XH
Received 8 Jul 2005Oak Lodge Cheal Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4JQ
Received 11 Oct 201011 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SP
Received 16 Dec 2021Land off Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XR
Received 30 Mar 2021High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 199532 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DL
Received 8 Oct 2019Records 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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