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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
High Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 200284 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 23 May 2006Adj to 54 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BX
Received 5 Jun 1992Adjacent to 2 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6LU
Received 22 Apr 2024ASHWOOD NURSING HOME 43 SPALDING COMMON SPALDING PE11 3AU
Received 27 Aug 2025Land adj Spalding Library Victoria Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1EA
Received 28 Feb 2024Breezefield Damgate Holbeach
Received 15 Feb 2008Adjacent Four Trees Station Road Long Sutton
Received 29 Apr 2004HALL MARSH HOUSE 54 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 8 Jun 2023Adjacent 300 High Road Whaplode
Received 18 Dec 200822 CROWN AVENUE HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EU
Received 24 May 2022Coronation House Mission House Corner Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 7 Jun 1999Weston Hills Road B1165 Low Fulney Spalding
Received 7 Oct 2005Robin Hood Cottage 9 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 8 Jul 2025White Hill Farm Shop Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 28 Mar 1994Glen Cottage South Fen Road Bourne Lincs PE10 0DN
Received 6 Mar 20031 BAXTER GARDENS SPALDING PE11 3YL
Received 1 Oct 2018The Old Forge Off Main Road Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding
Received 30 Jan 2012'Sunrise', Ravens Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 199689 Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AF
Received 12 Apr 201324 Marshlands Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs, PE12 7QQ
Received 30 Jun 1995Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 199914 CHAPEL GARDENS WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UG
Received 29 Feb 2016Rear gardens of 27 and 29 Campbells Close Spalding
Received 20 Aug 2003Records 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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