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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crystal Croft Beck Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3QN
Received 10 Nov 200432 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 29 Jun 2001Crown Hall Farm Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jan 1993Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 18 Dec 1991Nat West Bank plc 25 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding
Received 28 Sept 1993Needham House and rear of Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Sept 199386a GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JU
Received 27 Jan 2015Land off Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding PE12 6LW
Received 14 Jun 2021Cowley Road Donington
Received 24 Jan 20053 Lime Grove Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NG
Received 25 Feb 2009Trees Dam Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QL
Received 16 Dec 20256 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Mar 2000The Chase Off High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1994THE CHEQUERS 3 MAIN STREET GEDNEY DYKE SPALDING PE12 0AJ
Received 9 Mar 2018Parish of Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1997Holland Park (Land between Horseshoe Road/Hawthorn Bank) Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 1997Nene Court Wardens House (off Thames Road) Spalding
Received 2 Jun 2005ROOKERY FARM JOYS BANK HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8SD
Received 13 Aug 20141 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6NN
Received 11 Jul 2008The Melrose Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TZ
Received 11 May 2026Green Banks Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RR
Received 22 Apr 201365 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 26 May 199831 Marshlands Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jan 2002Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1995Records 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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