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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Monmouth House Monmouth Lane Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LH
Received 2 Feb 201028 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jul 1994Rear of 18 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AP
Received 2 Dec 2014Rear of 48 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 25 Mar 2019West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NT
Received 15 Aug 2013The Bungalow off East Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Aug 1992Northgate Garage Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Oct 2007Land adjacent 73 Broadgate Whaplode Drove
Received 12 Feb 2008Land at the junction of Wardentree Lane/ Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Dec 2018Acorn Lodge Cranesgate North Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6ST
Received 7 Nov 202528 Greenwich Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JF
Received 28 Oct 2011Spalding High School Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PJ
Received 3 Sept 2009Plot 14 Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Feb 2000DUNSBYDALE 120 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QN
Received 12 Dec 2016The Hollies, Washway Road, Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Oct 1996White Cross Farm Surfleet Road Surfleet
Received 30 Jan 2003Former Goodfellows School Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AS
Received 11 May 202012 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Sept 199720A Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2XN
Received 21 Jan 2013Annesfield Mission House Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 1994Off Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 20 Aug 2001Roman House Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8AY
Received 8 Aug 2011Threeways Luttongate Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QH
Received 30 May 201951 LEAMLANDS LANE LUTTON MARSH SPALDING PE12 9NS
Received 17 Apr 2019Records 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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