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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen Boston
Received 11 Mar 2024130 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EE
Received 30 Jan 2018Linden House 1 Bath Lane Spalding
Received 11 Mar 2002Adj. Priory Cottage, Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 199646 Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XQ
Received 3 Aug 201041 GRANGE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DX
Received 17 Apr 2023Abbey Print Site High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 1995Plot Off 60 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End
Received 25 Mar 2003Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HG
Received 19 Jun 1992Otway and Town Farm Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1998Threeways 105 Fishergate Sutton St James
Received 5 Oct 200653 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck
Received 13 Sept 2006The Old Post Office Dawsmere Bank Dawsmere Spalding
Received 13 Mar 199723 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SQ
Received 20 Jul 2017Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 199546 COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RH
Received 7 Oct 2014Broadgate House Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 29 May 1996Pinder Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1995The Black Swan Public House 12 New Road Spalding
Received 6 Feb 2008Plot adjacent 2 Lancaster Drive Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BD
Received 20 Feb 2012SPALDING GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL HOUSE PRIORY ROAD SPALDING PE11 2XH
Received 4 Jun 2014The Black Horse Public House 66 Siltside Gosberton Risegate
Received 31 Mar 2005The Gables Camelgate Spalding
Received 6 Oct 2005Former Old Barn Antiques And Pine Furnishings 48-50 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 22 Oct 2020Records 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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