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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
89 LANGWITH GARDENS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JJ
Received 14 Aug 201537-41 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1998River Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 1992Cressy Hall Farm Barns Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JD
Received 31 Jan 2013Geest Foods West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 16 Dec 2002Bridge Hotel 4 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 23 Apr 2025Holly House High Road Weston
Received 26 Jan 2007Land off North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Feb 200031 London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TE
Received 23 Mar 20076 St Marys Gardens Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 200274 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Oct 19972 ST MARY CLOSE CROWLAND PE6 0NR
Received 13 Sept 2021Land Opposite 548 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6DP
Received 4 Nov 202085 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Dec 200629 WOAD LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LD
Received 12 Nov 2014Delamore Dockings Holt Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JS
Received 30 Mar 2011Plot 1 Damgate Holbeach
Received 16 Aug 19961 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EF
Received 26 Jul 1996Land south Clay Drove Pode Hole Spalding
Received 7 Dec 200543 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RQ
Received 16 Apr 2013The Vicarage 8 Church Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2PB
Received 20 May 2016Fleet Road Nurseries Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 10 Mar 2003Land adjacent to Sileni Town Dam Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TR
Received 15 Sept 2015Adj. 43 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NN
Received 17 Apr 2020Records 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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