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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
West Marsh Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2BB
Received 15 May 1998Land off Park Lane Surfleet PE11 2TQ
Received 5 Sept 200280 Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XF
Received 30 Sept 20055 Church View Close Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Mar 1998McDonalds Restaurant Ltd Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 13 Nov 2012Rear 95 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 26 Oct 20051 Clarkes Farm Sluice Road Sutton Bridge Spalding, Lincs. PE12 YU
Received 25 Sept 200349A St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 11 Mar 2008Sessions House, Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 2000West Drove South Gedney Hill
Received 28 Mar 200835 Roman Road Moulton Chapel
Received 10 May 20054 Albert Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DN
Received 4 Mar 20095a Stonegate Cowbit Spalding
Received 14 Jul 2020Fields Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SN
Received 27 Feb 20183 BELL LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PQ
Received 1 Mar 202320 KINGS ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7RJ
Received 7 Aug 2018FORMER GOODFELLOWS SCHOOL SPALDING COMMON SPALDING PE11 3AS
Received 23 Dec 2018Land West Side of Brywood Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EU
Received 20 Jun 201734 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jun 2000Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1999MORRISONS BENNER ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UF
Received 20 Nov 2017Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 7 May 19966 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 199315 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4AG
Received 29 Mar 2004Records 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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