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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
37,280 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Laxton Gardens Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PR
Received 9 Mar 2010Holmleigh Dog Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 18 Nov 2003Rear 17 London Road Little London Spalding
Received 28 Jun 2005Town Farm House Church Street Donington
Received 7 Mar 2006Baytree Nursery/Garden Centre High Road Weston Spalding, Lincs
Received 14 Aug 1989Opposite Pied Calf Inn 20 Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1SA
Received 28 Jan 2025Priory Cottage Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0HD
Received 22 Jul 19911 TINSLEY COTTAGE HURN ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JE
Received 27 Oct 2025Mill Drove Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Aug 1996The Melrose Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TZ
Received 4 Oct 2011Plot 5, Westbourne Gardens Off Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Oct 1994Greyson Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EL
Received 7 Jun 2013Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HP
Received 20 Mar 1997Fern House New Fen Drove Gedney Hill
Received 18 Feb 2004Woolhall Farm Crossgate Wykeham Spalding, Lincs, PE12 6HW
Received 16 Feb 2004Plots 59-80, Phase 3 Part 4, Off Broadway Holland Park Spalding
Received 29 Aug 2001PEAR TREE FARM ST JAMES ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BA
Received 9 Mar 2018Land adjacent Littleworth Level Crossing Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3DF
Received 13 Mar 2015Harrington Hall Nursery Little Marsh Lane Fleet Spalding
Received 21 Nov 1996Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 1EY
Received 19 Aug 20159 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TB
Received 14 May 2021Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 2 Nov 2004The Gables Millgate Whaplode St Catherine
Received 24 Nov 2003NORWOOD HOUSE STATION ROAD GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0DD
Received 9 Nov 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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