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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
37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Primrose Crescent Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 26 Feb 1999Land off Pinstock Lane Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0BT
Received 6 Dec 2022Fish & Chip Shop Off Lowgate Gosberton Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 29 Jun 2001'Marina Villa' 5 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End
Received 27 Feb 2009Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 19934A Gimmels Gate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AS
Received 19 Oct 2020Adams Store Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XE
Received 17 Jun 201046 WYGATE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1NT
Received 19 Mar 20156 The Bluebells Saracen's Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8AT
Received 24 Jul 2006VENTURA HORSESHOE ROAD SPALDING PE11 3BE
Received 5 Feb 201525 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Apr 199314 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jan 1996Town Drove Quadring
Received 6 Dec 2001White House Farm Washway Road Moulton Common Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 2000Horse and Jockey West Pinchbeck
Received 10 Mar 2003Roma Lowgate Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5PP
Received 15 Jun 199245 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JN
Received 19 Jul 20171 Lancaster Drive Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1992Cleylands Burr Lane Spalding
Received 12 Mar 2007Fenlands Cottage Clarks Hill Gedney Spalding PE12 0DQ
Received 29 Oct 201230 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JB
Received 2 Nov 2006Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 19972 Crosslands Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 20134 WATER GATE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PY
Received 20 May 2021Records 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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