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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lakeside Farm Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QP
Received 19 Apr 2005The Beeches Bed & Breakfast - The Beeches Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BZ
Received 14 Oct 2021Brickyard Cottages Main Street Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 2001West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 7 Aug 19924 Park Road Holbeach
Received 13 Mar 2006Old Filling Station Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1995Station Road (Plots 8-13 incl) Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 1995Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0SA
Received 3 Jul 2014SPALDING GRAMMAR SCHOOL PRIORY ROAD SPALDING PE11 2XH
Received 20 Dec 2017LABURNUM HOUSE WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AY
Received 28 Oct 2015Church Cottage Church Gate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs
Received 14 Jul 1993West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Sept 1995The Pigeon Inn 1 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 1996OS No. Pt 3821, Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JU
Received 25 Oct 19933 Arnhem Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1PH
Received 17 Mar 1995Land adjacent Yonder South Eau Bank Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QW
Received 26 Jan 2024The House 2 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Oct 1998Land off Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 10 Nov 20037 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EG
Received 21 Aug 2009DOUBLE ROOF HOUSE HIGH ROAD MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6NT
Received 3 Feb 201414A Station Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BP
Received 24 Nov 2011Snowden Field, Pavilion Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AL
Received 22 Apr 2026Warehouse and Premises East Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9YA
Received 7 Oct 2016Rear of 16 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JF
Received 13 Sept 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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