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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
37,352 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 30 Jul 2015Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jan 2005Trial Grounds, West Marsh Road Pinchbeck Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Feb 1994Crescent House Fulney Lane Spalding
Received 8 Dec 1993North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill
Received 4 Jul 2005Plot 2, Watergate Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 199431 Fen Road Holbeach
Received 11 Jan 2008Holland Bridge Lodge Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SS
Received 30 May 2018Plough Inn Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel PE12 0XF
Received 31 Aug 201232 - 33 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SG
Received 15 Jul 2022Land rear of Mallard House Low Road Crowland PE6 0BX
Received 29 Nov 2002HAYLETT LODGE MAIN ROAD HOP POLE SPALDING PE11 3HL
Received 30 Apr 201540A Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RQ
Received 6 Dec 2007Ivanda Nursery Monks House Lane Spalding PE11 3LH
Received 3 Mar 202512 St Annes Way Spalding Lincs PE11 3PN
Received 3 May 2012Cobbiyard House At the String of Horses 3 Boston Road Holbeach, Lincs PE12 7LR
Received 6 Oct 2003The Sycamores Common Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LF
Received 9 Jul 200712 Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 1993Former Railway Yard, Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 1996Common Bank Inkerson Fen Throckenholt
Received 28 Jul 2005Ivy House Gosberton Bank Spalding
Received 16 Feb 2005Cowley Road Donington
Received 5 Sept 2005Stanberrys, Tretton Manor Barn Lowgate Tydd St Mary PE13 5PD
Received 17 Feb 2014The Baptist Chapel Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Apr 1992Records 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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