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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Jan 2025Treetops 66 Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 14 May 200814 LILBURN DRIVE SPALDING LINCOLNSHIRE PE11 3NY
Received 21 Jan 2014HOLY TRINITY CHURCH HILLGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NN
Received 25 Sept 2024Grange Farm Tydd St Mary Cambs PE13 5QZ
Received 24 Nov 201120A Westlode Street Spalding
Received 8 May 2008Starborough, Far End Farm South Drove Quadring Fen Spalding PE11 4QU
Received 27 Nov 2024The Queen Inn 49 Station Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UQ
Received 26 Oct 2012GORE LANE OFFICES GORE LANE SPALDING PE11 1BN
Received 14 Jan 2015MORRISONS BENNER ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UF
Received 14 May 2019Hagbeach Manor Millgate Whaplode
Received 28 Jun 20076 Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 OAL
Received 4 Oct 2005The Old Vicarage 2 Church Walk Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DT
Received 22 Dec 201413 Malvern Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2DG
Received 11 Jan 2013The Warehouse Double Street Spalding
Received 18 Dec 2001TANGLEWOOD 3 JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EP
Received 3 Aug 201714 The Crescent Spalding
Received 21 Nov 200320 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JN
Received 5 Jun 2023THE GRANGE 8 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QD
Received 28 Jun 2022Site Adjacent: Silverdene Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NR
Received 21 May 201910 Horsefayre Fields Spalding Lincs PE11 3FA
Received 29 Apr 2004Laburnum House Loose Gate Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6JX
Received 28 Sept 20181 West Road Westgate House West Road Tydd Gote Wisbech
Received 11 Jan 2002Wardentree Park Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 25 Jul 2002Records 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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