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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Whaplode House, Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 1997Red House Broad Drove Gosberton Clough
Received 23 Nov 1995D G M Growers Oak House Holbeach Bank Spalding PE12 8BB
Received 27 Dec 2018Shell Petrol Filling Station A151/A16 Junction Spalding
Received 14 Feb 200179A Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DQ
Received 1 Jun 20079 Villa Close Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JR
Received 15 Aug 2013Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 29 Mar 199511 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jul 1995Land adjacent 1 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jul 199551 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7DY
Received 14 Mar 2024Land off Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 200030 LOW ROAD CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BX
Received 6 Mar 201565 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2HY
Received 29 Apr 2026The Anglia Business Centre Mill Green Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3PU
Received 11 Mar 2013FIELD HOUSE HURDLETREE BANK WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SA
Received 2 May 201827 Kellett Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 199221 Woodgate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 199416 Claudette Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 2001Adjacent Poets Corner Bakestraw Gate Moulton PE12 6QQ
Received 5 May 2005Dockings Holt Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HL
Received 8 Dec 199751 ROMAN ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XQ
Received 17 Jun 2015St Marys Church Cowbit
Received 29 Apr 2005Plots 624-631, Pebble Close Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Dec 199416 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 1994Records 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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