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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Broadgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding
Received 24 Feb 1993Adj. Charnwood Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 199922 Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 2006Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 1993Duncrewin 2 Westerly Way Spalding Lincs PE11 3FN
Received 3 May 2001Rear of 6 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Dec 1996The Bungalow The Raceground Spalding
Received 18 Jan 20061 West Street Crowland PE6 0EE
Received 30 Aug 2005Land at rear of 32 Main Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1998Westlyn Fen Gate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XL
Received 20 Mar 202314 Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1992Broadgate Weston
Received 5 Apr 2002Blackwater Old Fen Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SL
Received 6 Apr 2004Moulton Service Station 63/67 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 1996Oak Lodge, Cheal Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1995Site to the South West of Spalding with Access from The Broadway to the North and B1172 to The South of Spalding Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Feb 2020Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LX
Received 22 Nov 201137 Station Road Moulton Spalding
Received 13 Aug 1992R K WILSON BUILDERS WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 27 Apr 20178 Viceroy Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs. PE11 3TS
Received 27 Nov 20031-3 Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 2003Birchgrove Garden Centre Surfleet Road Pinchbeck
Received 18 Jan 2005125 Main Road Fleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8LD
Received 23 Dec 1999Hillgate Road Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 18 Feb 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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