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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
36,582 approved · 4,440 refused · 1,332 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Johns Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JA
Received 24 Mar 20003 PADDOCK GREEN SPALDING PE11 1XN
Received 11 Feb 2012Lansen Nursery Ltd Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JR
Received 11 Apr 2011Near: Sewage Pumping Station Queens Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 199419 Hall Place Spalding PE11 1SQ
Received 16 Apr 2009Former Telephone Exchange Gore Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 1992THE OLD COAL YARD LOW ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING
Received 12 Oct 202138 FEN END LANE SPALDING PE12 6AD
Received 5 Jun 202044 BAREHAMS LANE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PX
Received 18 Mar 2019Granite House, Chapel Gate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1997Topsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Sept 1998Glenside Cottage Glenside North West Pinchbeck
Received 23 Feb 2006Culford House 6 Park Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DJ
Received 25 Jan 2011The Cottage Mill Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding PE12 8QW
Received 4 Apr 2013Laburnam House Barn Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SQ
Received 14 Jun 2004"Charmaine" South Drove Spalding Lincs PE11 3ED
Received 5 Apr 19943 STOCKWELL GATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UE
Received 20 Sept 2019Norfolk House Farm Gedney Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 9PB
Received 20 Mar 2011Land rear 96 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 4 Sept 2006Cottages adj. to 'Ambleside' Churchway Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QY
Received 22 Jul 1997Land off St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 19 Feb 2002Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1997Weydyke Bank Fleet Fen Holbeach Spalding
Received 12 May 1998Adj. 2 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LU
Received 27 Jun 2022Records 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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