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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
79 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jan 20076 DRAW DYKE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HR
Received 24 May 2021Barholme Farm Barehams Lane Quadring
Received 22 May 2000DALEHEAD FOODS FULNEY LANE NORTH SPALDING PE12 6EP
Received 7 Apr 2014116 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Dec 1999Blazegate Gedney Spalding
Received 10 May 2022Becks Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JL
Received 24 Sept 199211 Cross Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2YG
Received 6 Nov 2012Glen Avenue Pinchbeck
Received 8 Sept 2006103 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QA
Received 6 Sept 201771 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1995The Crooked Billet Hallgate Road Church End Fleet
Received 23 Feb 2007Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 4 May 1993S M C BELCHMIRE LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HG
Received 23 Dec 2022Rear 4 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BA
Received 15 Jan 2009Wrights Motor Group Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 1993Cobwebs Courtyard Hurdletree Bank Whaplode
Received 21 May 2007248 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JR
Received 6 Jun 2014Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen Lincs
Received 17 Nov 2023Horseshoe Lodge Birds Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 1993The Sycamores 4 Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UD
Received 28 Jan 201135 Roman Road(adjacent) Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 20 May 199220 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1XG
Received 21 May 2015Recreational Ground Rectory Road Tydd St Mary PE13 5QL
Received 18 Oct 2021Records 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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