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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HX
Received 19 Aug 201113 Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jul 2000Part Unit 7 Cradge Bank Industrial Estate Spalding
Received 11 Jul 2003Owens Cottage, North Drove Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Nov 1996Magellan Way Spalding
Received 14 Jun 2002Land off Kirkgate/Cross Street (Former Green's Car Park Area) Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TE
Received 4 Feb 201318 Hall Place Spalding PE11 1SG
Received 3 Jan 2012The Office Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6ND
Received 10 Feb 200929/31 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BG
Received 27 May 1997Cockrams Yard Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4LE
Received 21 Jun 2011Unit 33-35 Springfields Outlet Shopping & Festival Gardens Camelgate Spalding
Received 19 Nov 2004Land North of Withington Street Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 5 Oct 202015 Sarahgate Lane Quadring Spalding PE11 4QE
Received 5 Feb 201918 HARROW ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3ES
Received 31 Jul 2024The Cottages Slipe Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QF
Received 8 Jun 2009The Vicarage Station Road Surfleet Spalding, Lincs
Received 13 Oct 1992Frontage land south east Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 15 Feb 2006Adj. Saracen House Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8AZ
Received 11 Nov 2021Former Conservative Club 2 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 30 Jul 2024Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 11 May 1994Rear of 1-7 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Feb 200111 Badgate Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TH
Received 20 May 2020Former Network Rail Depot (on land to the North of Kings Road) Kings Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 2016Land to north of Roman Road (Between Greystones & Shrove House) Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1999Records 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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