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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Surfleet Bank Spalding
Received 8 Dec 1994CLAYDON NORTH DROVE SPALDING PE11 3JF
Received 26 Feb 201828 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jul 1999Hub Building Cibus way Holbeach Spalding PE12 7FH
Received 17 Mar 20221 Churchill Drive Spalding PE11 2RL
Received 11 Apr 2019Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 1996New Road (Plots 5, 6, 8 & 13) Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Sept 1998Land at junction of Crossgate Lane and Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 7 Apr 200030 Holland Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1UL
Received 26 Jun 2013Wykes Manor Cottage Wykes Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Sept 1999Oliver's Nursery The Paddock Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 10 Jun 1998Wardentree Park Wardentree Lane Spalding
Received 19 Apr 2004Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs. PE11 3YR
Received 17 Apr 2001HOME FARM MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RY
Received 13 Nov 2017NORTHORPE HOUSE NORTHORPE ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XY
Received 1 Jun 2026The Cobgate Building Cobgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TD
Received 21 Feb 2012Farmhouse High Road Moulton
Received 15 Jan 20082b West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Oct 1995Land fronting Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 9 Oct 1995THE LODGE PARK LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AF
Received 9 May 2017Lincolnshire Poacher 11 Double Street Spalding
Received 11 Jan 2001Small Drove Weston
Received 13 Feb 2004Poachers Gate/Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 199432 West Parade Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1HD
Received 10 Jan 2005Records 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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