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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adderley House, Stable Block 23 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 6EA
Received 23 Sept 2021Sutton Bridge Childrens Centre Westmere County Primary School Anne Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9TB
Received 10 Jan 2013Whaplode Water Tower Chapel Hill Whaplode Drove
Received 6 Sept 2006Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4DB
Received 19 Feb 2026Land West of the River Nene Sutton Bridge
Received 7 Jan 2005East Midlands Electricity Mast Off Washway Road (opposite Taylor's Bulbs) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 199570 Boston Road South Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LZ
Received 31 May 2006West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 20019 Broad Lane Moulton
Received 7 Jan 2002N W ROFFE & DAUGHTER 46 CHAPEL GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EE
Received 14 Mar 201812 Chancery Court Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1997Plots 9 and 10 Ash Court Donington PE11 4XJ
Received 7 Nov 200371 MILLFIELD GARDENS CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0HA
Received 3 Oct 2018Somerfield Store Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 1 Jun 2004Camel Gate Spalding
Received 1 Feb 1993FOUR WINDS 48 ROMAN BANK SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8BB
Received 15 Feb 2022Town Farm Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jul 1994Off London Road Riverbank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Oct 2025Land at Seagate Road and Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 20 Sept 2022Modena Low Road Spalding PE12 6EF
Received 2 Feb 20172 Victoria Street Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 199962 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 4 Jun 2025Barrington House 28 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 1991293 Bourne Road (Former Kelvedon Motors Premises) Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Dec 1997Records 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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