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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 21 Sept 2000Tull Grange Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Nov 19996 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding
Received 29 Oct 1991Willow Cottage Wallis Gate Whaplode
Received 23 Sept 200832 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 28 Jan 2015White Lodge 54 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 11 Oct 2004Park Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 1993PROCTOR BROS (WINGLAND) LTD LIGHTHOUSE FARM EAST BANK SUTTON BRIDGE PE12 9YT
Received 21 May 201449 PETERBOROUGH ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BB
Received 9 Apr 201837 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6FS
Received 7 Jun 2013Trevine Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 6 Feb 200335 COWPERS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9GG
Received 4 May 201643 GRANGE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DX
Received 22 Jun 20158 Church Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2PB
Received 23 Apr 201344 STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BP
Received 26 Oct 2023Land adjacent: Ashtree Lodge Lambert Bank Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0PR
Received 17 Apr 2019Foundry Lane Spalding
Received 17 Jan 2005Old Chapel Cottage South Eau Bank Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QW
Received 28 Mar 20125 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AF
Received 27 Aug 2009'Rest In Peace', Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jan 19973 Malting Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 12 Oct 2020Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 199117 Sluice Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8BH
Received 23 Sept 2009Old Main Road (Pt. OS 3408) Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jun 2000Records 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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