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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 off West Parade Spalding
Received 28 Sept 2006Hartley House Farm Holbeach Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 1996Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AD
Received 6 Jul 2009Plot 5, Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Apr 1999Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Nov 199831 Albert Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2LF
Received 27 Oct 1999Land off Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 2001Part OS 4259, Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1997Weston Hills Road Low Fulney Spalding
Received 3 Dec 2004'Stonehouse Farm' Main Road Deeping St Nicholas
Received 6 Apr 2009The Memorial Park (behind Curlew Centre) Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SA
Received 12 Jun 2020Land west of Woolram Wygate (Phase 3b) Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 19953 Hutchinson Gardens Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6WB
Received 30 Nov 2005Pepper Hill Cottage North Drove Bank Spalding PE11 3JX
Received 28 Mar 2022The Ship Albion Inn 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 11 Sept 2009Land adjacent to Harvest Lodge Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 9 Oct 20246 Balmoral Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2RN
Received 14 May 1993SHRUBBERY FARM MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3DJ
Received 25 Mar 2021130 ST JAMES ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AZ
Received 6 Feb 2020The Old Coach House 8 High Street Moulton
Received 8 Jun 200792 Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Feb 2000INKLEY FARMHOUSE HALL GATE ROAD THROCKENHOLT SPALDING PE12 0QS
Received 27 Jan 201450 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 May 1997West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 1993Records 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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