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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Willow Walk Spalding
Received 12 Jul 201923 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 199541 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1995THE LAURELS WOOD LANE QUADRING EAUDIKE SPALDING PE11 4SS
Received 6 Dec 2019The Orchards Oxcroft Bank Moulton Chapel
Received 29 Aug 2007Site off Church Lane Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Apr 2000Springfields Camelgate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 1995DALE COTTAGE 9 MILL LANE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TP
Received 19 May 202114 Lowgate Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 18 Jun 200178 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1QF
Received 13 Mar 2024Damgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 28 Jan 2004Land South-East of Broad Gate Weston Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6HY
Received 21 Aug 2023Blazegate Gedney Spalding PE12 0DU
Received 3 Sept 2019281 BOURNE ROAD PODE HOLE SPALDING PE11 3LW
Received 15 Mar 2023JOANNE BELNIE LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HN
Received 14 Apr 202590 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 22 May 199517 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 23 Jan 20061 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EF
Received 20 Jun 20063 Havelock Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2YL
Received 7 Feb 20057 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Mar 2001180 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs. PE11 4PT
Received 13 Dec 20048 Tydd Low Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 2000Chestnut Farm Shop Ltd Topsgate Gedney Spalding, Lincs PE12 0BS
Received 12 Mar 2004Site for Spalding Power Station (Former British Sugar Factory) West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 7 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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