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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
184 Avenue Farm Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QF
Received 19 Apr 200566 Saxon Close Spalding Lincs PE12 6AY
Received 24 Mar 200360 Roman Road Moulton Chapel
Received 15 Dec 20031 Welland Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1999Broadgate Gedney
Received 16 Jun 2003Greendyke Tydd St. Mary Wisbech
Received 22 Oct 19911 and 3 Crossgate Yard Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 5 Dec 2013CHERRY FARM BLAZEGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0AD
Received 5 Jan 2016PATCHETT LODGE ARTHURS AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LJ
Received 18 Dec 2019Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Oct 199314 NORTH PARADE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AJ
Received 28 Feb 2017Adjacent A151 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 1 May 2008Land west of Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Aug 2023High Road Weston Spalding PE12 6JU
Received 11 May 202313 Greenrigg Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2BP
Received 8 May 2006Parish of Spalding - Spalding Common
Received 13 Jul 2005WAITES FARM BARNS SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LD
Received 23 Feb 20249 LOW ROAD SPALDING PE12 6ED
Received 18 Mar 20193 MAYTREE DRIVE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9FY
Received 24 Jan 2020Maintenance Hangar Fenland Airfield Jekils Bank Holbeach St John Spalding PE12 8RQ
Received 11 Nov 2011Corner Cottage Lowgate Tydd St Mary
Received 14 Jul 2004CRAIG-NY-BAA WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PE
Received 8 Jan 2015Land off Broadway Crowland
Received 18 Jan 2006Moulton Loosegate Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Nov 2012Records 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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