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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Fern Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1GG
Received 11 Jun 2007Moulton Harrox Sports Field Broad Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6PN
Received 3 Sept 2013Rear garden of 13 Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 1993Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 1 Sept 20259 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EA
Received 29 Oct 2021Blacksmith's Row West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jan 1998Former Finning Site Double Street Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2006J E PICCAVER NORFOLK HOUSE FARM MAIN ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END PE12 9PB
Received 7 Nov 2017Sholtsgate Nursery Sholtsgate Whaplode
Received 23 Jul 2003OAKLAND SOUTH DROVE SPALDING PE11 3ED
Received 4 Apr 2014Paddock House Belnie Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HW
Received 29 May 2001Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 19985 Coopers Close Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TL
Received 20 Jun 1997FOUNTAIN LODGE 9 ROMAN BANK SARACENS HEAD - EAST SPALDING PE12 8AS
Received 1 Feb 2018105 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PW
Received 20 Nov 2003The Mill Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XQ
Received 16 Sept 2011Town and County Services Ltd Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 21 Nov 2006Old Brickyard Farm Peartree House Road Penny Hill Holbeach
Received 27 Dec 201811A Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EL
Received 29 Oct 2012Lundys Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jan 1999Mill Bank Farm Mill Bank Fleet
Received 6 May 2003adjacent 29 Woad Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DL
Received 17 Nov 2014The Mill, Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 9 Feb 1998Land off Blue Gowt Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 7 Dec 2020Records 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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