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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
37,618 approved · 4,558 refused · 1,377 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
WILLIAM STUKELEY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 19 Jan 201535 Lilburn Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Oct 1992Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 1 Aug 199423 Market Place Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ST
Received 9 May 2011The New Inn St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 31 Aug 2005Cuckoo Bridge Farm Cuckoo Bridge Spalding
Received 2 Mar 1993The Grange Coxs Drove Postland Crowland PE6 0ND
Received 1 Oct 2007Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 22 Mar 2006Land off Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Jul 2025Stow Ville The Common Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 25 Aug 2011Adj Apple Jack Lodge Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 19 May 20031A London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 27 Oct 2017Plot 4, Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Jan 200014 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jun 2003SILVERWOOD HOUSE BROWNS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AU
Received 7 Aug 2023Orchard Cottage Ravens Gate Fleet Fen Holbeach Lincs PE12 5PH
Received 4 Apr 2003Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PJ
Received 22 Apr 2016Plot to the rear of 5 The Wentworths Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9RT
Received 30 Jan 2019Cottage adj to Fairview Roman Bank Holbeach Bank SPALDING PE12 8BX
Received 21 Feb 2017PINCHBECK BAPTIST CHURCH 91 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RA
Received 14 Sept 2026Land south: 10 North Road (Plot 4) Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NL
Received 29 Oct 2019Adj. 127 Chapelgate Sutton St James
Received 30 Nov 2001Plot 2 Roman Bank Lutton Gowt Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Feb 2000Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 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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