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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 2, Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Apr 1993Low Road Spalding
Received 10 Nov 2003Spalding Academy Neville Avenue Spalding PE11 2EJ
Received 15 Jul 202235 Spring Gardens Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2XL
Received 14 Apr 2004The Old Chapel Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RR
Received 26 Jan 2026Beech Lodge Frogs Abbeygate Holbeach St Johns
Received 12 Aug 2003Wardentree Park Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 21 Aug 2003Unit 4, 24/25 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 May 1995144 RESERVOIR ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DH
Received 8 Jun 2022120 Spalding Common Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 30 Aug 20007 SALTERN DRIVE SPALDING PE11 1UQ
Received 1 May 2020Anglia Motel Washway Road Fleet
Received 13 Mar 2008HOLE IN THE WALL PUBLIC HOUSE HOLE IN THE WALL PASSAGE SPALDING PE11 1SH
Received 11 Aug 2016BRIDGE HOUSE FISHERGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EZ
Received 23 Sept 2016202a High Road Weston Spalding PE12 6JU
Received 15 Dec 20258 CLOUGH ROAD HOLBEACH CLOUGH SPALDING PE12 8BW
Received 3 Nov 2021Hagbeach Manor, Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Nov 1995Land to East of Crease Drove Crowland
Received 14 Jun 2021Old Leam Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Feb 1994Willow Tree Farm Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HP
Received 27 Nov 2019Fairfield Lodge Cranesgate North Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TY
Received 14 Sept 200976 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HH
Received 7 Feb 2005'Reservoir House' 152 Reservoir Road Surfleet PE11 4DH
Received 17 Mar 2009Goldwood Moulton Ltd Long Lane Moulton
Received 30 Jan 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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