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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
64 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 May 1999High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jul 200112 GRANGE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DX
Received 16 Jul 2019Browngate Farm Browngate Sutton Crosses Spalding PE12 9AU
Received 24 Jul 2013Sarahgate Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jun 1997Pt OS 4022, Star Lane Holbeach Bank Spalding, Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1999Cardwell House Dawsmere Road Dawsmere Spalding PE12 9NQ
Received 20 May 2013Browntoft House Browntoft Lane Donington Spalding, Lincs PE11 4TQ
Received 30 Jul 200423 Normanton Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JJ
Received 22 Sept 2025North boundary of Church Yard Donington Church Yard Church Street Donington
Received 14 Sept 201265 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding, Lincs PE11 4LL
Received 8 Feb 200521 Holyrood Walk Spalding Lincs PE11 2RY
Received 21 Jun 2013Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0AL
Received 10 May 2018West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 19952 Coles Close Holbeach Spalding PE12 7QT
Received 24 Nov 2011Tanglewood Nursing Home London Road Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 1992Plot 2, Delph Fields Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jun 1994Horseshoe Bridge Horseshoe Road over South Drove Drain Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1999Co-op Store Clover Way Shopping Precinct Wygate Park Spalding
Received 2 Oct 200680 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 2001'Hollyhock Cottage' Drove Road Holbeach Drove PE12 0SB
Received 23 Feb 2009Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 1992Adj to Silver Acorns 37 Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6HY
Received 1 Jul 2021134A Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jun 1994Records 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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