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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adj. 39 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Aug 199714 MILL LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NN
Received 3 May 201631 Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PN
Received 25 Sept 2012South: Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XQ
Received 7 Sept 2017IVY COTTAGE 692 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JA
Received 15 Aug 2017Roffes Transport Ltd West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 23 Nov 1992Land off Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 4 Apr 2008Land off Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 18 Jun 2001Spalding Energy Expansion Limited West Marsh Road SPALDING PE11 2BB
Received 11 Sept 2017Telephone Exchange Gore Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Nov 1991Clear View Millgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SD
Received 3 Apr 201211 Matmore Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2QS
Received 13 Aug 2013Woods Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 1996Adjacent: Redmay Farm 317 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 4 Mar 2016Part O.S. 0005, B1165 Weston Hills Road Low Fulney Spalding
Received 16 Oct 1991Honeysuckle House 2 Monkshouse Court Spalding Lincs PE11 3YS
Received 24 Oct 2013Westbourne Gardens off Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 199332 West Street Crowland PE6 0ED
Received 23 Mar 2005Grange Road Terrington St Clement
Received 19 Jun 2006CURLEW COURT GUYS HEAD ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QQ
Received 12 Dec 20141 Queens Bank Postland Crowland PE6 0JR
Received 29 Sept 2003Monks House Lane Spalding
Received 12 May 2004Annfield Lodge 35 Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 6 Feb 20089 Bonnington Court Spalding PE11 2GS
Received 11 Oct 2010Records 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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