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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Double Street (Former Loughborough Motors Site) Spalding
Received 10 Apr 1997Holbeach Meadows Hall Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QA
Received 8 Nov 2022105 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 16 Dec 2024North:- A17 Sutton Bridge Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 1993Land east of West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 1997Unit 1 Swan Street Spalding
Received 24 Dec 2003The Peacock Public House Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QD
Received 9 Dec 2010Land to rear of 65 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 2 Aug 201974 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Sept 2000Lowgate Fleet
Received 24 Feb 2006OAKLANDS CRAWFORD GARDENS CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0AZ
Received 2 Oct 2014Tears Recovery Gosberton Road Surfleet
Received 18 Feb 2008Chatterton Water Tower Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 17 Oct 2006Elizabethan Hall Parsons Lane Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 30 May 2001Hamlin North Drove Quadring Spalding
Received 24 Jan 2014The Elms Harford Gate Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1999LAKEVIEW 1 PINDER LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SN
Received 8 Jul 2025Cranesgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 199513 HARPE CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RX
Received 9 Dec 2020Adjacent to 79 Chapel Gate Sutton St James
Received 28 May 2003Little Owl Farm Sarahgate Lane Quadring Spalding PE11 4QE
Received 6 Jul 202078 Station Road Tydd Gote Lincs PE13 5QB
Received 8 Dec 1999Chatterton Water Tower Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 199529 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LU
Received 17 Mar 2025Records 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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