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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Buns Bakery Station Street Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2004Parkinsons Land Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 31 Mar 199294 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech
Received 17 Jul 1992Moulton Village Green Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 3 Oct 20173 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 2001POPLAR FARM OLD FENDYKE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HE
Received 7 Aug 2020Sholtsgate Nursery Sholtsgate Whaplode
Received 10 Aug 200132 New Road Spalding
Received 14 Dec 2007WHAPLODE HOUSE 8 STOCKWELL GATE WEST WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6WG
Received 4 Aug 202367 LIME WALK LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HQ
Received 22 Sept 2020Land to the rear of The Sycamores Main Road Tydd Gote Spalding PE13 5QG
Received 20 Oct 202297 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 1996SPRING VILLA ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8BX
Received 8 Jun 2018Land off High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 1994Stables adjacent: 56 Parson Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QW
Received 17 Jul 20176 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1994Land between 27 and 33 Lowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NL
Received 16 Aug 201320 Colsuan Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9FR
Received 17 Feb 2005Tate Business Park Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3LX
Received 12 Aug 2014Land off Cloot Drove Crowland Nr. Peterborough
Received 16 Aug 2000Land off Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Oct 1997Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 28 Feb 2005Willow Cottage Guanockgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs PE12 0LU
Received 12 Nov 2004Homelea Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding
Received 29 Jul 2016Records 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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