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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
WISHING WELL WOODHOUSE LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6JY
Received 9 Feb 2021Ashdown 3 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2BH
Received 31 Aug 2004Land adj. to Bank House Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 1991Industrial Land Pudding Lane Off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincs
Received 28 May 1992LUMLEY LODGE 28 MANOR DRIVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LY
Received 17 Oct 201765 PETERBOROUGH ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BB
Received 3 Oct 20147 & 9 Roman Bank Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Feb 1994132 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Sept 2007A152 HAND CAR WASH SPALDING ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HL
Received 1 Oct 2018Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 30 Sept 2005Pt. OS 0002, Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 29 May 1996CHESTNUTS FARM SHOP TOPSGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BS
Received 4 Oct 201614 Helmsley Way Spalding Lincs PE12 6BG
Received 25 Jun 2009Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Sept 1998Ash Tree House Drain Bank Cowbit Spalding, Lincs PE12 6AF
Received 30 Apr 1999Laddies Ices 32 Church Street Holbeach
Received 28 Sept 200126 Guanockgate Sutton St Edmund
Received 23 Mar 20069 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DD
Received 12 Aug 2005Burr Lane Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Nov 1998Tilsons Farm, Black Barn Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 1995Decoy Farm Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 19 Feb 199821 Osier Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1UU
Received 31 May 2005Land between Seagate Road & Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Oct 2023Settlers Lodge Roman Bank Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AT
Received 27 Nov 2003Records 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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