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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hurdletree Bank Farm Hurdletree Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 12 Jan 2000Land West of 1 East Road Tydd Gote Wisbech
Received 8 Jun 2023THE GABLES 4 SALEM STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NQ
Received 29 Jan 2020Land off Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 29 Sept 2000Lloyds TSB 36-37 Hall Place Spalding
Received 11 May 200710 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 2007Home Farm Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 2000Day Spa (Rookery Spa) 179 Rookery Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9QG
Received 2 Apr 200957 AINTREE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3BT
Received 8 Oct 2026Fenland Airfield Maintenance Hanger Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RD
Received 2 Jul 2012Plot at rear of 59 High Street Gosberton
Received 14 Jun 2002William Stukeley Church of England Primary School West End Holbeach
Received 28 Mar 20064 GOXHILL AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SZ
Received 29 May 2014The Meadows Park Road Spalding
Received 7 Aug 2003M J L Skipmaster Ltd Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3LL
Received 9 Jan 2017248 PARK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QT
Received 28 Jul 201514 CROYLAND WAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0NA
Received 22 Jan 2015Piccaver Farm Hundred Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AJ
Received 7 Feb 20135 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 4 Sept 2006The Old Surgery 24 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 5 Dec 2012Land fronting: Laburnum Lodge 40 Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AU
Received 27 Jul 2017Westgate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 1997Osier Road Spalding
Received 2 Mar 2005Commercial Road Spalding
Received 11 Mar 2008Records 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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