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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 3, Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 1992Land adj 87 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0XD
Received 12 May 20231 Small Drove Weston Spalding PE12 6HS
Received 12 Apr 2022Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1996Northgate Mill, Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Feb 1999HOSPITAL FARM MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3DH
Received 2 Nov 2021Broadgate Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jun 1998Former Odean Cinema London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 2000Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 3 Apr 2000Silverhill Roman Bank Lutton Gowts
Received 9 Oct 2006Glebe Field Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Wisbech
Received 24 Jan 201330 PARK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1NH
Received 28 Nov 2024Former Jewsons Builders Merchants Roman Bank Spalding
Received 20 Feb 2007Part OS No. 4088 and 4183 Gosberton Bank Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1994Swan Farm, Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 19961 Norton Cottages Tongue End Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2006Adjacent Access to 13A Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DE
Received 20 May 20092 Bell Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6PQ
Received 7 May 2014SEWAGE PUMPING STATION AVEBURY GARDENS SPALDING
Received 11 Aug 2022IRBY VILLA MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RT
Received 18 May 202137 Aintree Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3BT
Received 1 May 1995Sandpit Nurseries Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1997Holyhouse Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TP
Received 25 Aug 2000Land off Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 2017Records 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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