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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 31 May 2023THE TRIANGLE 85A SEAS END ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DQ
Received 30 Nov 2020Tamarisk Cobgate Whaplode
Received 14 Jul 2008Land off Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 10 Nov 2003Marriott Farm Black Hole Drove Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QL
Received 7 Mar 2022Land off Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XW
Received 8 Jul 202639 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BW
Received 29 Nov 20065 Church Street Spalding
Received 14 May 200767 NORTH STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EG
Received 18 Aug 20239 LINDEN WAY WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NR
Received 23 Nov 2021Adjacent to Parigo Nursery Spalding Commmon Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1996Blue Gowt Lane Pinchbeck
Received 20 Aug 200857 - 59 SALEM STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NQ
Received 16 Feb 2026Rear: 5 Park Lane/The Vicarage Park Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 199520 - 20A and 20B Bridge Street Spalding
Received 27 Oct 20037 Market Place (incorporating 18-19 Bridge Street & 1 Market Place) Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 2001Rear: 26 Green Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 2YD
Received 14 Feb 201927 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Nov 1993Land adj. 50 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 31 May 2018Stanberrys Tretton Manor Barn Lowgate Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5PD
Received 15 Oct 2013Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 199947 Cobgate Whaplode
Received 22 Jun 201211 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 2002104 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PD
Received 1 Sept 2004Records 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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