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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 31 Aug 2006Marchesi Sholtsgate Whaplode
Received 11 Mar 20045 Mawford Close Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 31 May 2002Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7BH
Received 5 Dec 20257A Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AL
Received 7 Aug 20074 NORTON COTTAGES COUNTER DRAIN DROVE TONGUE END SPALDING
Received 17 Feb 2016Pumping Station Mill Drove South Cowbit Spalding PE12 6FS
Received 6 Jan 2025Riverside Stores 1 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 21 May 1997Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 15 Feb 2022WILLOW HOUSE BENS GATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NL
Received 1 Mar 202165 ST THOMAS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2XT
Received 2 Dec 2014Solanum Ltd East Bank Wingland Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9YB
Received 4 Dec 20095 Link Way Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jun 1995Willow End Stockwell Gate Whaplode
Received 23 Apr 200384 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LF
Received 22 Apr 2026Old Methodist Chapel (Chapel Engineers) Holbeach Bank Spalding
Received 4 Mar 1998'Ingleside', Main Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jun 199511 Carnoustie Crescent Spalding
Received 6 Aug 2008Glenside Motor Co Glenside Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SA
Received 14 Sept 2009Kellet Gate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Jun 200010 Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TP
Received 23 Apr 2013WILLIAM STUKELEY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 5 Apr 2023Plot in front of: "Ersanmine" Hillgate Road Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 17 Jul 199240 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 22 Feb 2006Records 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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