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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent: Wevahome 43 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BX
Received 15 Jun 2016Abbey Print Site High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 1993off Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JN
Received 21 Jun 2019Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 4 Jun 2026St Martins Vestments Lutton Bank Lutton Spalding PE12 9LR
Received 24 Mar 200911 Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UQ
Received 21 Apr 2010Green Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 199925 CROWN AVENUE HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EU
Received 10 Aug 2016West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HG
Received 13 Feb 2026Adjacent: Hillegom 76 Little London Spalding PE11 2UF
Received 27 Sept 201615 Lavender Drive Spalding PE11 1YR
Received 28 Jun 2017Cherry Tree Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Dec 2000Church End House Church Green Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4SQ
Received 18 Oct 1994132 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 199367 Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 2005Yew Lodge Farm Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 0SS
Received 19 Jan 201716 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 3 Feb 2003Plot 5 Elsom Way Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 23 Feb 200642 Market Street Long Sutton PE12 9DF
Received 17 Sept 2012Plot 6 Church Way Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 200023 Wrights Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs. PE12 9RH
Received 5 Dec 2002Wharf Street Nene Quay Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Jan 2007Springfields Camelgate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 199517 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 21 Aug 2013Records 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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