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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjoining Low Road/Queens Road Spalding
Received 30 Oct 19954 Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XA
Received 8 Nov 2011Adjacent 30 Daniels Gate Long Sutton
Received 5 Jul 2004Jewson Ltd Wardentree Lane Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 23 Aug 200523 Ashby Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QR
Received 30 Sept 1993Land off Cobgate Whaplode
Received 12 May 2004Collector Road Holland Park Spalding
Received 8 Oct 1992All Saints Church 2 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6PQ
Received 12 Dec 202545 AUSTENDYKE ROAD WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6BX
Received 13 Nov 202219 Abbots Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1JS
Received 1 Mar 1995Mallard Nursery 1 Mallard Road Spalding
Received 22 May 2002Land East of Chaffinch Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 6 Sept 2022Chalk Lane Langley Park Sutton Bridge Lincs
Received 2 Oct 200010 DAWSMERE BANK GEDNEY DAWSMERE SPALDING PE12 9NN
Received 20 Sept 2024Chestnut Farm Shop Ltd Topsgate Gedney Spalding, Lincs PE12 0BS
Received 29 Jul 2004Land between Seagate Road & Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AD
Received 17 Apr 202320 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LB
Received 20 Feb 2013Land off Cibus Way South Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone Holbeach Spalding PE12 7FH
Received 21 Nov 2022Hillside Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 9 Oct 201240 Laxton Gardens Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 2007ROBERTS 55 FEN GATE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XR
Received 3 Dec 2015Austendyke Hall Austendyke Road Weston Hills PE12 6BZ
Received 16 May 2006MALLARD HOUSE FARM MALLARD HURN DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XF
Received 3 Nov 2016Grange Farm, Grange Road Terrington St Clement Kings Lynn Norfolk
Received 18 Mar 1998Records 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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