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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Magnolia House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XR
Received 3 Jun 2010HAMPSONS CAR HIRE BERVOR CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3FZ
Received 27 Oct 201549 Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QF
Received 27 Mar 2012Gleed Girls School Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 199925 Station Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1EB
Received 11 Feb 2003Land at rear of Horse & Groom Public House High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DU
Received 12 Nov 199178 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EY
Received 12 Aug 202162 WATER GATE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PY
Received 11 Jun 2019Albert Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DN
Received 14 Aug 2003Mallard House Farm Mallard Hurn Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XF
Received 15 Feb 2006117 Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 8 Nov 2006Station Road Surfleet
Received 10 Jul 2002Baulkin's Drove Sutton St. James PE12 0JU
Received 24 Apr 2014Cloot Drove Crowland
Received 16 Apr 200259 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4LL
Received 28 Aug 2003The Rowans Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TB
Received 25 Apr 2013Land to the rear of 11 - 18 Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UB
Received 14 Dec 2022West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Nov 2001Adjacent 36 Albert Street Spalding PE11 2LF
Received 19 Jul 200410 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1993The Emeralds Old Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 9 Oct 2001Broadgate Barns 694 Broadgate Weston Spalding
Received 25 Apr 2024Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 23 Apr 2004132 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JR
Received 17 Jun 2014Records 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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