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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 3 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding
Received 23 Mar 19926 KIRBY COURT SPALDING PE12 6BB
Received 25 Apr 2019Warden Lane Industrial Area (Formerly Spalding Haulage) Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 16 Mar 1993Seas End Road B1357 Moulton Loosegate
Received 28 Feb 2008Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0UA
Received 19 Oct 2023Harrodene 29 Halmer Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EE
Received 16 Jan 2017121 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs, PE12 9SG
Received 12 Sept 1995Land to the Rear of The Beeches Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 22 Jun 2022Glenside Nurseries Glenside South West Pinchbeck
Received 11 Oct 2004Gilded Way Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TY
Received 21 Oct 2013Cedar Falls Care Home Little London Spalding PE11 2UA
Received 14 Apr 2015THE BURROW 4 LUTTONGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0QH
Received 31 Oct 2016Parish of Crowland
Received 19 Apr 1993MORSTEAD HOUSE CHEAL ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JF
Received 31 Mar 2022SUTTON BRIDGE CHILDRENS CENTRE ANNE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9TB
Received 28 Feb 2014Beechfield Medical Centre Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1UN
Received 7 Dec 201020-20A Unit 2 Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AF
Received 21 Apr 2021The Homestead Broad Lane Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8BG
Received 18 May 2011Land off Wrights Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RH
Received 25 Jan 20131 STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 20 Nov 201455 Grange Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2DX
Received 23 Nov 2009"Wayside", Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 8 Nov 1994Osier Road Spalding
Received 5 Jan 2005Walnut Cottage Mill Green Road Pinchbeck
Received 24 Jun 2002Records 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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