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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Penningtons Cottage Hurdletree Bank Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QH
Received 21 Feb 2012Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 26 Jan 2004Haulage Yard 192 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 1993Land known part of Silverhill Caravan Park Lutton Gowts Lutton PE12 9LQ
Received 24 Aug 2018Land off Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2008Northgate Garage Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SE
Received 13 Jun 2003Lloyd Loom of Spalding Ltd Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UG
Received 22 May 200927 Market Place Donington
Received 22 Jul 2002North of Childers Lodge Pecks Drove Spalding
Received 5 Jul 2005282 WESTHORPE ROAD GOSBERTON WESTHORPE SPALDING PE11 4EP
Received 26 Jun 20175 PADDOCK GREEN SPALDING PE11 1XN
Received 5 Dec 2014Rear 17 London Road Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 2009The South Holland Centre Market Place/Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 1997Land at Churchgate Road Off A17 Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 24 Jun 1993Peppercorn Barn 61A South Street Crowland PE6 0AH
Received 4 Nov 2011land at Broadgate Farm Gedney Broadgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 2001Harecroft Lutton Bank Lutton PE12 9LL
Received 29 Jun 2012The Salvation Army Hall 12 Westlode Street Spalding
Received 22 Dec 2003Tanglewood Cedar Falls Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UA
Received 29 Aug 2019Plots 61,62&63, Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 1992Weston St Mary Primary School Playing Field, Small Drove Weston Spalding
Received 6 Dec 1996Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jun 1996Adjacent Tysdale Farm Common Way Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QH
Received 11 Feb 2016Land off Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PT
Received 2 Aug 2019Records 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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