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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 May 1995High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jan 1996Concrete Company Carrington Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 29 Nov 201017 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1997131 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 2003Land adj. No. 340 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Nov 1999James Road Crowland
Received 12 Apr 2022Broad Street Spalding
Received 25 Mar 199436 High Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 30 Jun 202239 Wintergold Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 3FP
Received 9 Jul 2002Hurdletree Farm Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs PE12 6SS
Received 6 Sept 1999Ivy Cottage Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 15 Aug 200720 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6BX
Received 29 Jul 201511A Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JW
Received 24 May 2004111 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UF
Received 5 Jan 201753 LANGWITH DRIVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HQ
Received 23 Aug 2017MANOR FARM FEN ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QB
Received 26 Jun 2023Oak House Cold Stores Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding
Received 22 Oct 1996Railway Close Spalding
Received 15 Jan 2009Off Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Mar 19947 Market Place incorporating 18 and 19 Bridge Street and 1 Market Place Spalding
Received 14 Mar 200360A Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jul 2000Part of former airfield Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Feb 2000Plot 2 Park Lane Donington
Received 11 Jan 2001Records 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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