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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fenland House 24 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 26 Nov 2012Land off James Road Crowland Spalding
Received 6 Sept 2019Green Lane Boston Road Gosberton
Received 19 Jul 2004St Christopher Residential Home Spalding Common Spalding Lincs
Received 19 May 1997Spalding Primary School Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1PB
Received 22 Oct 201317 LOVE LANE SPALDING PE11 2PF
Received 5 Oct 201719 Burton Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2GE
Received 27 Apr 2006Land north Vernatts Drain Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 15 Jun 2007Cressy Hall Farm Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Nov 19952 Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4LX
Received 24 Apr 200214 Sturton Way Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs.
Received 30 Aug 2002Land at/north of Swan Street, Winsover Road, west of Winfrey Avenue & south of Kings Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 1995NORTHORPE FARM NORTHORPE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XY
Received 28 Aug 2019Worlds End Road Tydd St Mary PE13 5QN
Received 22 Nov 2016Adj. 58 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 199748 LAXTON GARDENS PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PR
Received 23 May 201663 SOUTH DROVE LUTTON MARSH SPALDING PE12 9NT
Received 20 Oct 2026Castle Farm Barn Leaveslake Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 19 Jan 1993Fig Tree Cottage Guanockgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LW
Received 4 Apr 2006Adj. Sileni Town Dam Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TR
Received 18 Jul 2022Land Off Clumber Drive Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 26 May 1998Yellow House Farm Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 200171 73 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 30 Aug 2007Land adjacent Jacksons Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 14 Jan 2008Records 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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