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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
37,557 approved · 4,547 refused · 1,376 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Corner of Cheal Road/Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding
Received 17 Mar 2023St James Farm Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JE
Received 5 Jul 2010JKL TRANSPORT BRUNEL ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YY
Received 19 Oct 2017Wingland Enterprise Park off Centenary Way Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Oct 20051 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 24 May 2011The Axe & Handsaw New Road Quadring Eaudyke Spalding, Lincs.
Received 8 May 2000Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 199415 High Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DB
Received 8 May 201314 and 16 Bacons Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3XS
Received 27 Aug 1996Oak House Cold Stores Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8BL
Received 9 Aug 1994Double Roof Farm High Road Moulton Spalding PE12 6NT
Received 25 Sept 2024Land to East of Chaffinch Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 19 Sept 2024LUCKS BRIDGE FARM SOUTH DROVE PODE HOLE SPALDING PE11 3ED
Received 26 Apr 2021THE BUNGALOW WOODHOUSE LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6JY
Received 22 Dec 2014Land at Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jul 1996THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CHAPEL STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AR
Received 28 Sept 20222 CARRINGTON ROAD SPALDING PE11 1LY
Received 22 Dec 202126 HIGHSTOCK LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0QG
Received 26 Jun 2026Bar Farm, Deeping Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Nov 199611 Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 31 May 2006CHAMELI TANDOORI 17 ST JOHNS STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AB
Received 25 Mar 2021The Vicarage Market Place Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JJ
Received 31 Jul 2012ASHLEIGH HOUSE 43 GUANOCKGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LU
Received 4 Jan 2021Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AB
Received 6 Jul 2018Records 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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