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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 2 Adj. 202 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PB
Received 25 Sept 20234 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BA
Received 7 Apr 19996 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6NL
Received 13 Feb 2008Homelea 355 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TG
Received 17 Sept 201416 Wignalls Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 26 Apr 1993Sholtsgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 2000Wimberley Hall Farm Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 1995Ravens Gate Fleet Fen Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PH
Received 2 Mar 199411 Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BH
Received 28 Jun 1994Sassenheim Lutton Bank Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs PE12 9LJ
Received 21 May 2010Long Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PP
Received 2 Feb 2006Chestnut Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3HH
Received 26 Jan 200094 London Road Long Sutton
Received 12 Sept 2005Pumping Station Albion Street Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 4 Jul 2018Georgian Court Haverfield Road Spalding PE11 2QT
Received 9 Nov 2020FORMER PINCHBECK DAIRIES PENNYFIELD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RG
Received 14 Aug 20182A SHEEP MARKET SPALDING PE11 1BH
Received 6 Feb 2026Land off St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 4 Mar 20038 Clay Drove Pode Hole Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 1997Maltings Place 5 Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Aug 1993Lansdown Farm, Chaintoft Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jul 1997Campains Lane Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3EX
Received 4 Aug 1994off Mole Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PA
Received 10 May 2010HOLLY GRANGE 81 DOG DROVE NORTH HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SA
Received 12 Mar 2018Records 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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