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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Crescent Spalding
Received 4 Dec 20027-8 Dawsmere Bank Dawsmere Spalding, Lincs.
Received 2 Jul 2003Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 1994Plot 9, Church Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 31 Jan 1996Adj. Twitters Bridge 173 Boston Road North Holbeach Spalding PE12 8AG
Received 18 Jan 20218 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 199710 Sluice Road Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8BH
Received 14 Jul 2025Off Edward Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 200023 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 May 2005Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 1997Plot 4, The Business Park Elsom Way Pinchbeck
Received 18 Feb 2009Welland Hall London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 1994The Sycamores, Churchgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jul 1997All Saints Church 2 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6PQ
Received 14 Jan 2025Langley Park Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9YF
Received 12 Jul 2004Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Feb 1994Cobgate Farm Centre West Cobgate Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Feb 1995The Smallholding Green Dyke Lutton Bank Lutton,, Nr Long Sutton PE12 9LL
Received 14 Oct 2015Land off New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 11 Jul 20021 Somerby Close Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PZ
Received 11 Dec 2001Laurel House Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8LH
Received 16 Feb 2005Vickers Park Washway Road Moulton Marsh Spalding PE12 6LP
Received 25 Sept 201946 West Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0ED
Received 24 Mar 2009The Cottages Six Score Road Langtoft Fen
Received 28 Oct 2008Records 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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