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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Whaplode Garage High Road Whaplode
Received 26 May 200617 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Mar 1994Coxs Farm Postland Crowland PE6 0ND
Received 20 May 2004Hurdletree House Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QR
Received 31 Mar 2005Part O.S. No. 0335 Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding
Received 25 Nov 199434 TOWN DAM LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TP
Received 12 Jan 2022Land off Damgate Holbeach Lincs
Received 31 Jan 2001Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 15 May 2002Plot 3, Land between 61-71 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DQ
Received 21 Jun 2018104 BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AQ
Received 11 Dec 201834 Mountbatten Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TP
Received 29 Mar 2012Naylor Farms Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LG
Received 4 Mar 2015Land Windy Ridge Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 7 Jul 2005Land adjacent 132 Queens Road Spalding
Received 13 May 2004Clarkes Hill Gedney Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 0DQ
Received 12 Jan 19943b Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1SX
Received 16 May 2019THE OLD VICARAGE OLD VICARAGE LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LU
Received 10 Mar 2023HOVENDEN HOUSE FLEET BANK FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LW
Received 1 Jun 20261 The Meadows Park Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QT
Received 4 Jul 200111 London Road Spalding
Received 27 Mar 2008D BROWN BUILDING CONTRACTORS LTD SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING
Received 26 Jan 2018'Midway', Barlings Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JN
Received 25 Jul 1997Deeping St Nicholas Wind Cluster Vine House Farm Deeping St Nicholas
Received 19 Jan 2004111 WILLOW COURT COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6GF
Received 6 Jul 2026Records 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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