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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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287 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 25 May 2007Paddock between 1 Paddock Lane/Campling Place Holbeach Bank Spalding
Received 13 Jan 2017Agavea Lodge Hallgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0AH
Received 22 Nov 2012Adj. Chestnut House Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HD
Received 30 Jun 2021WELLAND HOUSE CRADGE BANK SPALDING PE11 3AN
Received 9 Feb 2016194 Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 2003Quadring Bank Farm Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Feb 19946 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SL
Received 12 Oct 2016SERPENTINE HOUSE 30 BARRINGTON GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LB
Received 3 May 20184 Francis Street Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1996TOWER BUNGALOW HOSPITAL DROVE LITTLE SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EG
Received 5 May 201534 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 22 Aug 20071 Westfield Drive Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 16 Jun 1999WAITES BARNS SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6JX
Received 1 Feb 2016Burtey Fen Farm Burtey Fen Lane Pinchbeck
Received 21 Mar 2005Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 23 Jun 2021Land off Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Dec 1992Land off York Gardens Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HT
Received 3 Dec 202112 WESTMORELAND ROAD MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PU
Received 8 Jun 2023Former works site St Thomas Road & Welland Close Spalding
Received 15 Feb 200563 Double Street Spalding
Received 18 Jul 2008110 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4ET
Received 19 Apr 20212 Hop Pole Row Main Road Hop Pole Spalding PE11 3HJ
Received 10 Apr 2013FESA U K LTD CLAY LAKE SPALDING PE12 6BL
Received 16 Sept 2014Records 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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