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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Swapcoat Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 19997 DAM GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BH
Received 2 Mar 2015Rear of Plot 5 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 12 Jun 2001The Butterfly & Wildlife Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LE
Received 13 Sept 2016Sainsburys Store Holland Market Spalding PE11 1RQ
Received 10 Jun 2011BARDON HOUSE 28 OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 5 Aug 2022Enterprise Park Enterprise Way Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 20008 Cobgate Close Whaplode Spalding
Received 23 Jun 1993WOOLLIE FARM LANGARY GATE ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0RU
Received 7 Nov 2017PIPWELL MANOR WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AY
Received 15 Feb 2019Station Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 12 Apr 2000Land off Wignal's Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 201947 Wignalls Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 9 Dec 1991land to west of Lowgate Gedney
Received 28 May 200260 Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 19971 OLDHAM DRIVE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XZ
Received 20 Feb 2025Rear of 84 Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QQ
Received 12 Nov 20217 SHIVEAN GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PL
Received 14 Sept 2020The Smallholding Millgate Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs.
Received 29 Apr 1992Cliftonville, Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 1996Riverside Cottage 9 River Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3AA
Received 7 Jan 1998Plot 3 Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 30 Jul 199921 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 22 Apr 200934 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jun 2004Records 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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