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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adj. Saracen House Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding
Received 14 Jun 20228 & 9 Bridge Street Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Apr 2000Elm House Queens Road Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 1994WILLIAM STUKELEY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 3 Jul 2025Unique Cottage Fulney Lane South Spalding PE12 6FA
Received 18 Feb 2013Ashwood Nursing Home 43 Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AU
Received 29 Sept 2025100 London Road Spalding
Received 24 Mar 2009Land rear of The Hamber 5 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AF
Received 4 May 20178 Cross Street Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 7BD
Received 4 Oct 2018Orchard Apartments rear : Holbeach House Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 12 Feb 20087 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JA
Received 14 Mar 2013Rear 46 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 2009Adjacent to 51 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6TD
Received 8 Aug 2024MANOR HOUSE BROADGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0DE
Received 18 Mar 2020Willow Tree Farm Buildings Lapwater Lane Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8EX
Received 21 Feb 2024The Post Office 37-39 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HX
Received 28 Aug 2009Marriott Farm Black Hole Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QL
Received 18 Sept 2025ELDA CHURCHGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BZ
Received 12 Aug 2025Land off Wygate Park Distributor Road Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 199810 Forge Crescent Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 1993Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Feb 2000Holbeach Centre The Holbeach Campus Park Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PT
Received 2 Aug 2019104 BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AQ
Received 18 Jan 2017Burr Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6AZ
Received 8 Mar 2018Records 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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