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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Benner Road Wardentree Lane Ind. Estate Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 2 Oct 1996REVILLS SHOES 4 FRANCIS STREET SPALDING PE11 1AT
Received 3 Jun 2016Park Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4UE
Received 30 Nov 2017Land at Millgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6SF
Received 29 May 2015The Stables Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JU
Received 17 Oct 200560 Marshlands Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 2002Cross Street Fleet Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 18 Jan 1999Enderby Barns Leaves Lake Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QJ
Received 29 Mar 20196 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1992Sutton Bridge Power Station Sutton Bridge
Received 9 Mar 1998The Pied Calf Public House 20 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 199912 Halmergate Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2DS
Received 17 Sept 201548 NEW ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RQ
Received 25 May 2021Former Dunns Seeds Factory Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 11 Dec 2000Ladyville Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0XR
Received 3 Mar 2003Land at Tyrell Farms Off Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 19 Apr 2016Off Pennygate Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 199684 STONEGATE SPALDING PE11 2PH
Received 12 Jan 2024Roman Lodge Mill Lane Tydd St Mary
Received 8 Feb 2008Between 45 and 47A Cowbit Road Spalding PE11 2RH
Received 2 Mar 2010Northgate Dog House Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 26 Aug 1992Land off Green Lane Spalding
Received 21 Jan 2004Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 12 Apr 2000Field House Residential Care Home Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE22 7HD
Received 8 Jun 2017Records 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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