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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 Albert Street Spalding PE11 2LD
Received 24 Sept 2008FORMER E J LEFLEY SITE STATION STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LF
Received 4 Jun 2015Old Boat House West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 21 Mar 2000NORDIC LODGE WATER GATE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PZ
Received 14 Apr 2017Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HG
Received 12 Feb 1993The Mill Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PW
Received 22 Sept 200610 Market Rasen Way Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7XQ
Received 17 Oct 2007Land between: Camel Gate & Roman Bank Spalding
Received 13 Mar 2019Long Sutton Cold Stores Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 24 Dec 201061-65 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate
Received 3 Jun 2008Thorpes Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Feb 199659 High Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 19 Oct 19927 MAIN STREET GEDNEY DYKE SPALDING PE12 0AJ
Received 21 Oct 2026Batemans House Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding PE12 6LW
Received 20 Sept 2021Fendyke Lowgate Lane Gedney Dyke Spalding
Received 6 Sept 2010South Drove Spalding Common Lincs
Received 23 Jan 2001THE BLACK SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE 12 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DQ
Received 10 Mar 20142 ALICE COTTAGE MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3DH
Received 10 Aug 2021Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HP
Received 26 May 2000Verdant Drive Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TA
Received 2 Sept 2016The Poplars Fulney Drove Spalding
Received 1 Mar 2002Main Road Filling Station Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AG
Received 18 Jun 2013One Stop Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JE
Received 3 Jan 2020Holbeach Road junction of A16 and A151 Spalding
Received 3 Mar 2009Records 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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