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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
STATION HOUSE KINGS ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QB
Received 3 Nov 2021Parish of Sutton St James Spalding
Received 5 Oct 1992Cranesgate House Cranesgate North Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TY
Received 6 Feb 2025Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8AL
Received 5 Mar 2018Bridge Road Industrial Estate Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 30 Oct 2002Old Brickyard Farm Penny Hill Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Sept 19924 KINGS ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7RJ
Received 21 Jun 20211a GREEN LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BZ
Received 30 Apr 2015NORTHGATE FARMHOUSE NORTH GATE WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TB
Received 20 May 2024Willow Cottage Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 6 Apr 2000Former Adcocks Drinks Off Crease Drove Crowland
Received 11 Feb 2020MIA LODGE HEREWARD WAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BL
Received 10 Jan 202288 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HJ
Received 19 Jul 2004116 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EE
Received 30 Dec 2016West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PN
Received 12 Nov 2019Mill Green House (Johnson Bridge Farm) Tydd Road West Pinchbeck, Spalding
Received 27 May 1994Cresswell Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 1999Wragg Marsh Farm Spalding Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 6HQ
Received 15 Jul 2011Coronation Cottage 39 West Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BN
Received 12 Oct 2021Willow Tree Farm Lapwater Lane Holbeach St Marks
Received 28 Mar 2003Main Road Tydd Gote Spalding PE13 5QG
Received 13 Jul 2018The Challenge Childersgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HX
Received 7 Jan 2022St Johns Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JA
Received 17 Aug 20043 Church Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 7 May 1993Records 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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