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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
THOMAS COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TF
Received 11 May 2022Ropers Bridge Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jan 199712 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 2002Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 2013Dovecote Farm Mallard Hurn Donington Spalding PE11 4XE
Received 6 Jan 201124 Church Street Holbeach
Received 14 Jul 2006Agricultural Barn to the north of Weston Barn House Marsh Road Weston Spalding PE12 6HQ
Received 25 Sept 2023Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 9 Dec 1994114 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HJ
Received 22 Feb 2018Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 3 Jan 2014Dorcette House Little Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RU
Received 6 Aug 2002Land at rear of Cowley House & 29-35 Quadring Road Donington Spalding
Received 8 Aug 19979 Chestnut Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jun 200787 89 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NA
Received 6 Sept 2007The Lion, Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 1997CURLEW COURT GUYS HEAD ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QQ
Received 10 Aug 2015134 Pennygate Spalding
Received 13 Mar 20081 GREEN BANK WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SH
Received 10 Jul 202630 Avebury Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2EN
Received 30 Jul 200358 Fairfields Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JE
Received 2 Jun 1993St Annes Way Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Sept 1994Battlefields Farm Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Apr 199477 Church Street Pinchbeck
Received 3 Nov 2006Green Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 2YD
Received 28 Apr 2011Records 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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