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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Nov 201072 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JW
Received 1 Apr 2005Land at Camelgate/Holbeach Road (inc. site of Springfields Gardens) Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 1999124 St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 5 Jan 2005Land west Woolram Wygate Wygate Park Spalding
Received 31 Aug 2006WISHING WELL WOODHOUSE LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6JY
Received 15 Sept 2020117 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SG
Received 15 Jul 2008Cheal House Farm Cottage Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding, Lincs. PE11 4BD
Received 21 Jan 2003The Memorial Park Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SA
Received 4 Apr 201610 Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 200312 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs PE11 1BE
Received 27 Mar 2013CROFT HOUSE 98 STONE GATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AH
Received 12 Jan 20248 Grange Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2DX
Received 17 May 2007St Johns Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JX
Received 19 Jul 2007Land at Holbeach Road (Junction A16/A151) South East Quadrant Spalding
Received 23 Sept 2005Land to Rear of 75 South Street Crowland Peterborough
Received 13 Jan 202551 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JR
Received 25 Mar 201522 High Street Spalding
Received 24 Nov 2003Land adj. 14 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jul 1996Eagle Lodge Roman Bank Holbeach Clough
Received 8 Jan 200727 Ashby Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QR
Received 29 Oct 1993Pear Tree Cottage Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4AH
Received 25 Mar 1998Land off Willow Walk (Former Laws Yard) Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 2017Geest plc, West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1997Records 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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