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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Park House Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 2003234 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SG
Received 7 Apr 2022Unit 6 Holland Market Retail Park Spalding Lincs PE11 1RQ
Received 5 Sept 20185 COUNCIL HOUSE WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AZ
Received 4 Jun 2021Power Station Site East Nene Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 23 Jan 199777 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 200421 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 8 Jan 2002Land off The Hayfields Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 2001Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 26 Jun 2006Park Road Spalding PE11 1NH
Received 17 Mar 2021Rear of Croft House 98 Stone Gate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 5 Aug 2022Acorn Lodge Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs PE11 3TB
Received 30 Apr 1999West End Cold Stores Pennygate Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 1999Land off Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 19 Jul 2022Crease Drove Crowland
Received 26 Aug 202011 WEST COB GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QN
Received 10 Jul 2014Adj. South View CP School Reform Street Crowland PE6 0AN
Received 12 Mar 199889 NORTH STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EG
Received 30 Sept 2026Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jul 2003Bulls Bank Donington
Received 3 Jan 2002Off Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jun 199227 Northorpe Road Donington
Received 29 May 2007Fleur Cottage, 32 West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Aug 2000The Gatehouse 87 Stonegate Gedney SPALDING PE12 0BY
Received 11 Aug 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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