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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Refrigerated Store Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Nov 1995The Lanterns Stonegate Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 2009Rose Farm Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 23 Nov 19931 Market Court Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9FW
Received 1 Dec 1999TILSONS YARD BLACK BARN MAIN ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PA
Received 23 May 2018CLIFTON COTTAGE 65 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RA
Received 20 Oct 2014East of Boston Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 25 Sept 199284 Daniels Gate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LG
Received 5 Dec 20081 CLARKE CLOSE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4FD
Received 2 Aug 2022108 Main Road Quadring Spalding
Received 12 Nov 1991Honeysuckle Cottage North Drove Quadring Spalding, Lincs, PE11 4QS
Received 23 Aug 200264 Claudette Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 1HU
Received 6 Mar 200291 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 5 Mar 2008Laburnam House Barn Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 8 Mar 2005THE OLD RECTORY 1 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 23 Jul 2021The Homestead Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 12 Jul 1993Fenlands Farm Yard Fendyke Gedney Fen
Received 28 Mar 2002Bungalow Adj. Northgate Nurseries Northgate West Pinchbeck
Received 16 Sept 1999110 - 112 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 31 Jan 20018 Lutton Bank Lutton
Received 18 Oct 2001Bridge House Farm Gosberton Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 4PB
Received 19 Mar 2004Between 72 and 84 Barrier Bank Cowbit PE12 6AQ
Received 7 Jan 200824 CHESTNUT AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XH
Received 14 Jan 2022Land off Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 12 Jun 2020Records 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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