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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
528 Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 14 Jul 2008Bell Lane / Church Lane junction Moulton Spalding
Received 5 Oct 2026Adj. Willowdale Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0UA
Received 14 Sept 20262 Swapcoat Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jul 200023 MARKET WAY PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PE
Received 25 Sept 2020Fair View Farm Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BE
Received 16 Dec 201116 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jun 2000St James Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1994PRIMROSE FARM MAISDYKE LANE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NH
Received 9 Feb 20179 Main Road Tongue End Spalding Lincs PE11 3JJ
Received 20 Dec 201227 Goodfellows Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Oct 1992Sports Ground, Pavilion & Premises North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NL
Received 16 Jan 2026Willow Tree Farm Holbeach St Marks
Received 14 Jan 2008LE-MARSH NORTHGATE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TA
Received 2 Feb 2022Azalia Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QN
Received 27 Oct 1992Adjacent to Primrose Cottage Church Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TA
Received 27 Oct 2026Shamrock Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 2 Mar 200728 Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 1993Monkshouse Primary School Pennygate Spalding
Received 21 Jan 2002Markstrip Mushrooms Ltd Roman Bank Sutton Crosses
Received 4 Dec 200323 COWPERS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9GG
Received 27 Mar 201814 Beech Grove Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XQ
Received 26 Mar 199350 WEST STREET CROWLAND PE6 0ED
Received 6 Aug 2014DOVEDALE HOUSE CHEAL ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JQ
Received 21 Feb 2023Records 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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