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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sutton Hovels Corner of Jarvis Gate & Broad Gate, Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 18 Nov 19917 Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PE
Received 13 Nov 2024Hallgate Farm, Luttongate Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 1997GRENOBLE 1 COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RD
Received 26 May 2016Cowpers Gate (South) Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AY
Received 6 Jan 2016West Drove South Gedney Hill
Received 29 Oct 2008THE POPLARS FROSTLEY GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8SR
Received 21 May 2015Harriet Close Longdon Close Plots 582 583 592 593 670 and 671 Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 11 Nov 1996Alderlands, Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0AA
Received 5 Aug 1996TERMUNDRYDGE HOUSE LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 24 Feb 2016Site opposite Stockwell Gate (Plots 1, 2, 20, 21 & 22) Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 199624 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 25 Jul 2016Plot 10 Monks House Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 2000The Former School House Gosberton Clough & Risegate Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 9 Oct 1996HOLBEACH ST MARKS VILLAGE HALL ST MARKS ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8DZ
Received 9 Apr 2021Rose Cottage 19 Barbers Drove Crowland PE6 OBE
Received 3 Aug 2005Land rear 43 West Elloe Avenue Spalding
Received 10 Feb 2006Land off Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Apr 2017The Plough Public House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3EN
Received 23 Jun 200623 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jan 2003Land south: Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XQ
Received 4 Apr 201937 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 5 Jun 2019Fleet Estate Office Roman Bank Fleet Spalding, Lincs
Received 14 May 1999Westdale Drove Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 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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