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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
GREENWAYS 26 WEST DROVE NORTH GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PL
Received 27 Aug 2019Derelict garages site Hereward Road Spalding PE11 1HF
Received 12 Nov 202067 69 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 5 Apr 2002West Bank Port Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Apr 2001Rear of The Ship 89 London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EE
Received 23 Sept 2021Holly Farm Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund
Received 9 Jul 200415 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DB
Received 5 Nov 2018Off Hallgate Church End Fleet Spalding PE12 8NQ
Received 10 Jul 2020Terra Nova Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 14 Oct 2002CHATHAM HOUSE 216 BOSTON ROAD NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AG
Received 12 Jan 202321A HILLGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NN
Received 22 Nov 2022Plot 4 Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QG
Received 18 Sept 202073 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Apr 2003Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 9 Jan 2004Abbey Walk Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EP
Received 5 Mar 1998AMSTEL PARK LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AF
Received 30 Nov 20216 Finlay Close Spalding PE11 2PW
Received 12 Sept 2019Pond Magellan Way Spalding PE11 2FG
Received 21 Apr 2015land off Seagate Rd & Lancaster Drive Long Sutton Spalding
Received 18 Aug 1997Belle Vue Garage Premises Station Road Holbeach
Received 16 Jan 2006Plot 3 Lincolnshire Gateway Business Park Spalding
Received 31 Mar 2025Site adjacent: Greenways Frostley Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 30 Sept 2019Building Plot Spalding Lawn Tennis Club Clay Lake Spalding Lincs PE11 2PH
Received 6 Jan 201048 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 5 Aug 2021Records 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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