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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Plot east: 33 Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LS
Received 28 Mar 2019White Cottage New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 1994"Seeforth" Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 11 Jun 1993CHAPEL HOUSE CHAPEL DROVE HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0PT
Received 28 May 2019Fengate Farm Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XR
Received 22 Oct 2013Former Finning Site Westlode Street/Double Street Spalding
Received 15 Dec 2006Speyer Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1992Land adjacent Common Pit Roman Bank Long Sutton
Received 17 Nov 20083 The Chase Holbeach
Received 13 Oct 2008Rear of 16 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JF
Received 19 Aug 2010Site to the south west of Spalding with access from the Broadway to the north and B1172 to the south, Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 1 Jul 201670 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Sept 2003Land off Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Jun 202440 Cornfields Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 2002IVY HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 31 Jul 2017Land adjacent and part rear: 355 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TG
Received 26 Jul 201923 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TD
Received 4 Jul 2006Lundys Farm Holbeach Marsh
Received 13 Apr 20046 Aintree Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3BS
Received 11 Aug 2000Snowdrops 43 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs. PE12 9HG
Received 25 Feb 2003BEEHIVE LODGE COUNTER DRAIN DROVE TONGUE END SPALDING PE11 3JJ
Received 9 Nov 2015Yertiz 1 Vicarage Close Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RS
Received 23 Mar 2020Eardley Grange Farm Wrights Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AB
Received 19 Mar 200199 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 1995Records 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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