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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 10 Aug 2010Little Dog Drove Area Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 2013Land off Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 16 Jan 2024Land off West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 201114 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Oct 199583 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Mar 2000Feldbinder UK Ltd A17/Bridge Road Roundabout Tydd Bank Sutton Bridge
Received 8 Mar 2007Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Jan 1999Worlds End Road Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QN
Received 2 Feb 2023The Cottage Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding, Lincs. PE12 6SH
Received 3 Feb 200314 Market Place Spalding
Received 20 Nov 2008Off Church Fleet Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 1993Land adjacent to Cawood Hall Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 1995Hawthorne Caravan Park Spalding Drove Spalding
Received 9 Mar 20071 and 2 Welland Court Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AB
Received 10 Dec 2012The Paddock Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SH
Received 14 Jul 201610 London Road Bedford Court Spalding
Received 5 Jun 2002Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AU
Received 28 Oct 200539 Albert Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2LD
Received 6 Sept 1995Former Welland Hospital Site Holbeach Road/Roman Bank Spalding PE11 2HY
Received 13 Nov 2020The Anchorage High Road Whaplode
Received 17 Jan 2005Sutton Bridge Golf Club New Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9RQ
Received 17 Apr 2018Holbeach Hospital Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AQ
Received 30 Oct 199223 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DY
Received 21 Jul 2010Records 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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