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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
East Reach Farm Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas
Received 15 Apr 2002Cobwebs Courtyard Hurdletree Bank Whaplode
Received 21 May 2007Brunel Road Off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 30 Oct 2008Field Works Common Road Moulton Seas End
Received 27 May 2005102 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 2005Fen Bridge House Little Britain Tongue End Spalding Lincs PE11 3JJ
Received 5 May 2005Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1994133 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs, PE11 4NA
Received 4 Aug 1993Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn
Received 3 Nov 2008CLASSIQUE HAIR DESIGN 2 BOSTON ROAD SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LR
Received 10 Nov 2014Land Opposite 548 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DP
Received 22 Aug 2018Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BB
Received 2 Sept 2010BRIDGE HOUSE NORTHGATE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3SE
Received 30 Aug 2023WELLAND HOUSE 30 HIGH STREET SPALDING
Received 10 Apr 201737 HAY BARN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EJ
Received 11 Jul 2018102 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1HA
Received 7 Aug 2025The Mill, Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 13 Feb 1997175 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 199431 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs PE11 4DJ
Received 18 Feb 201110 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 4 Oct 2006Whinfell House, Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Dec 1996Holly Cottage Fengate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 11 Aug 19988 HIGH STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DB
Received 27 Mar 2018Site of Former Red Cow Hotel High Street Donington Spalding
Received 7 Dec 2021Records 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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