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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Smiths Flour Mills Barrington Gate Holbeach
Received 16 Apr 2002Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 6 Jan 2005Land adjacent 120 and 122 Severn Road Spalding
Received 18 Nov 200339 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9BN
Received 17 Nov 2025Goodison Peak Hill Cowbit PE12 6AW
Received 4 Apr 200843 Rutland Gardens Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1995The Swan 13 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QB
Received 28 Jan 2005off Greenfields Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8LA
Received 21 May 2009Wardentree Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1997Stonegate/Matmore Gate Spalding
Received 25 Mar 199422 PARK CLOSE SPALDING PE11 1PW
Received 16 Feb 201625 CROWN AVENUE HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EU
Received 17 May 2016Hortic Express Ltd Harveys Barn Days Lane Donington PE11 4XT
Received 15 Jun 2015THE GABLES CAMEL GATE SPALDING PE12 6ES
Received 24 Jun 2015St Mary & St Nicholas Church Church Street & The Parish Office 1 Halmergate Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 2016VENTURA HORSESHOE ROAD SPALDING PE11 3BE
Received 22 Oct 2025Tomkins Lowgate Tydd St Mary PE13 5QP
Received 9 Mar 202015 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Mar 199913 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 2001Old Health Care Centre Allenbys Chase Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Jan 200757 Battlefields Lane South Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PQ
Received 6 Aug 20129 PARKLANDS FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NU
Received 7 Sept 20201 Brewers Court Donington Spalding PE11 4US
Received 12 Oct 2012Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 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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