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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
37,387 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Church Street Spalding PE11 2PB
Received 5 Feb 2013Off North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 1997MELROSE COTTAGE ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8DS
Received 24 Mar 2021Land off Flaxmill Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1996Off Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 11 Mar 20197 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 23 Apr 2008Land at Buttercup Paddock opposite Cobgate Churchgate Whaplode
Received 2 Feb 200036 FAIRFIELDS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JE
Received 28 Mar 2014Former bakery site Ayscough Avenue Spalding PE11 2QB
Received 26 Jan 2006AYSCOUGHFEE HALL CHURCH GATE SPALDING PE11 2RA
Received 27 Nov 201550 WOOLRAM WYGATE SPALDING PE11 1PB
Received 20 Nov 2023Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 8 May 20067 WESTMORELAND ROAD MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PU
Received 16 Mar 2023WISTERIA FARM NORTH GATE WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TA
Received 11 Sept 2023Picks Farm Cottages Hop Hole Farm Deeping St Nicholas
Received 5 Nov 200110 KINGS ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7RJ
Received 28 May 202628 Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UQ
Received 22 Mar 2012Further Old Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 4 Dec 2018Premier International Food Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 8 Jul 200214 Farmers Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NT
Received 9 Feb 2012Cross Keys Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NN
Received 13 May 1997251 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 28 Feb 2019Existing barn opposite Seagate Hall Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 12 Jun 2008GOSBERTON BANK NURSERY GOSBERTON BANK GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PB
Received 18 Feb 2019Records 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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