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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
37,368 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 7 May 199295 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JU
Received 4 Jul 2013Land rear 194 Park Road Spalding
Received 28 Jan 2005Building Plot, New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Dec 1997Main Road Little Sutton Spalding
Received 12 Dec 199440A Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RQ
Received 10 Mar 2003Harecroft Lutton Bank Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LL
Received 14 Sept 2010ST MARGARETS CHURCH CROSS GATE DONINGTON SPALDING
Received 12 Jul 2024On land north of A17 between Boston Road and Pennyhill Holbeach PE12 8DN
Received 16 Oct 1991Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses Blazegate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0AD
Received 28 Apr 201110 LIME GROVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NG
Received 30 Jun 2022Land off Willows Close Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 13 Sept 20069 BEAR LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XA
Received 23 Aug 2019PELOTON PRODUCE LTD WEST COB GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QN
Received 26 Sept 202351 JUBILEE WAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JS
Received 11 May 2022Linjoy Nurseries Damgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 30 Mar 199225A Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2XN
Received 1 Jul 20118 to 9 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs PE11 1BE
Received 31 Aug 2010La Castagna Cheal Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BA
Received 17 Sept 2026West View Priestfield Drove Gedney
Received 11 Dec 2006HAMPSONS CAR HIRE BERVOR CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3FZ
Received 15 Aug 2016Eight Horse Barn Money Bridge Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SB
Received 20 Dec 2023Off Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 29 Feb 2016THE PARSONAGE 1 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2DR
Received 13 Jan 2025Records 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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