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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
37,481 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adjacent Abendbloem Town Dam Lane Donington
Received 23 Aug 201249 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 4 Jul 200613 Hixs Lane Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QW
Received 8 Sept 201915 STENNETT AVENUE SPALDING PE11 3AX
Received 30 Oct 201812 Windsor Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 199919 Aalsmeer Rise Spalding Lincs PE11 3JD
Received 24 Jun 2003Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 18 Feb 2003Plot 3 Adj. Douglas Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 3 Sept 202546 Cross Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2YG
Received 8 Mar 200715 London Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2TA
Received 22 May 20232a OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 24 Aug 2016Geest Holbeach Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 28 Jul 2003Chaintoft Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 1994Land to the North of Witham Road Wygate Park Spalding Lincs PE11 3QE
Received 20 May 2019Westmere Barn New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QD
Received 24 Nov 2021Chapel Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3HJ
Received 19 Dec 2002Plot 16 off London Road Long Sutton
Received 17 Aug 2006ELSAM CROSS AND CO 5 - 6 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 2 Jul 2014Co-operative Store West Street Long Sutton Spalding
Received 9 Apr 19977 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 23 Apr 2021Delamore House Park Road/Daniels Gate Long Sutton
Received 19 May 2005125 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1HA
Received 11 Mar 2013"Daytona" Cranesgate Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 1992Jamph House High Road Whaplode
Received 23 Aug 2001Records 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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