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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Crown Cottage Oxcroft Bank Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XT
Received 22 Dec 2006SPALDING RAILWAY STATION STATION APPROACH SPALDING PE11 1EY
Received 5 Feb 2025HAWTHORN FARM SOUTH DROVE QUADRING FEN SPALDING PE11 4QU
Received 5 Jul 202124 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LD
Received 26 Apr 200431 Chapel Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AR
Received 30 May 2008Wardentree Court Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ZN
Received 26 Sept 2011Plot at South Eau Bank Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 1999Topsgate Gedney
Received 9 Dec 1996Pentland House Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PT
Received 3 Feb 2025Former Nursery Foxes Low Road Holbeach
Received 13 Jul 2026Chappell Centre Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QF
Received 24 Aug 2017M B E Fabrications Ltd. Town Drove Quadring Spalding
Received 17 Nov 2020Land to South West of Harrington Drive Crowland
Received 23 Sept 202148 Park Road Spalding PE11 1NH
Received 30 Jul 2012Land at Cranesgate South Holbeach St Johns Spalding
Received 17 Aug 202164 Double Street Spalding
Received 16 May 2006Anca Ings Road Quadring Bank
Received 18 Jul 2003Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 1991Land off Boston Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 6 Apr 2022Adjacent 339 High Road Whaplode
Received 12 Sept 2005143 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QG
Received 15 Aug 200379 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PH
Received 6 Jan 20107 HOEKMAN WAY SPALDING PE11 3HE
Received 1 Mar 2021'East View', Guannockgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 1995Records 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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