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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Sept 1997Crossways Hurdletree Bank Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Oct 200012 Church Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NF
Received 23 Dec 2009Land adjacent 9 Church Street Spalding
Received 21 May 2003284 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 17 Oct 20162 WILLOWS CLOSE TYDD ST MARY WISBECH PE13 5QR
Received 12 Feb 202128 Broadgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs PE12 0LT
Received 18 Jun 20082 Estella Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1HS
Received 12 Apr 2005ROSEMEAD STOTONS GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8SB
Received 3 Mar 2021CHESTNUT LODGE CROSS STREET WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TF
Received 23 Feb 2017The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 18 Nov 2002Cross Road Sutton St Edmunds
Received 29 Sept 20049 RIVER BANK SPALDING PE11 3AA
Received 21 Aug 20174 Stanley Drive Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 199689 Pinchbeck Road Block A and B Spalding
Received 5 Oct 2007LANGTOFT HOUSE 57 ALBION STREET SPALDING PE11 2AU
Received 1 Jun 2018Randall Bank Moulton Spalding
Received 5 Mar 2013Seagate Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton
Received 4 Nov 2002PRIORY HOUSE 1 - 3 THE CRESCENT SPALDING PE11 1AB
Received 6 Feb 2020"Shalom" Welby Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 24 Feb 2000Lazy Acre Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RR
Received 22 Apr 2010Washway Road Moulton Marsh Spalding
Received 25 Nov 1994Adj. 123 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jun 2001Middle Unit Bridge Road Industrial Estate Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EH
Received 2 Jul 2009Records 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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