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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church House Church Street Donington Spalding, Lincs PE11 4UA
Received 12 Jun 1998Meat Plant, Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Mar 199818 Chestnut Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NE
Received 17 Sept 200481 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EF
Received 13 Feb 2006The Old School Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 2 Sept 2019BEECHTHORNE 87 SEAGATE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AD
Received 24 Nov 2022Compass House 7 Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YR
Received 29 Jul 1994ROWAN HOUSE 149 STOCKHOUSE LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AT
Received 2 Nov 2022Hillegom 76 Little London Spalding PE11 2UF
Received 5 Jan 2011The Laurels Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JU
Received 27 Apr 2004Central Trains Spalding Railway Station Spalding PE11 1EY
Received 22 Feb 2013Holme Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 5 May 2010Quaker Meeting House Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AE
Received 14 Oct 2020Unit 4, Benner Road (Former 'Warmerhome' Factory) Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 1997Rear of 71 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 25 Jul 1997Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 2001The Old Vicarage 8 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UD
Received 17 Mar 2020LYNDALE ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8DS
Received 19 Jan 2016MOORSWOOD COTTAGE MOORSWOOD GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BB
Received 7 Nov 2021Brooks Farm Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jun 1994259 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 27 Mar 200035 HELMSLEY WAY SPALDING PE12 6BG
Received 10 Aug 2026Bifrons Cottage 52 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 5 Jul 2006Land at Spalding Railway Station Station Road Spalding
Received 13 Oct 1997Records 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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