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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 22 Apr 200511 Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 19972 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Sept 1994Land off London Road Long Sutton
Received 11 May 2006Fleet Mews Orchard Park Fleet Spalding PE12 7BS
Received 6 Oct 2023Westfalia Fruit UK West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 3 Jul 2025Whaplode House Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6UE
Received 11 Feb 199481 Chestnut Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2LN
Received 7 Jun 2005CROSSGATE FARM HOUSE 58 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SH
Received 4 Dec 20205 6 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 29 Apr 20051 Burma Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TU
Received 7 Sept 2018Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Long Sutton, Spalding Lincs, PE12 9AU
Received 10 Oct 1994149 Stockhouse Lane Surfleet
Received 17 Dec 2001Adderley House 23 London Road Long Sutton
Received 5 Feb 200717 Rose Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RN
Received 10 Feb 20068 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 2 Aug 2022Land Adj. 139 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NS
Received 23 Oct 2020Gable House 12 Church Walk Pinchbeck
Received 4 Aug 2006Poplar Cottage Town Drove Quadring
Received 27 Apr 2006Gemini Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SQ
Received 28 Oct 2003Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 5 May 19927 Rowan Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BT
Received 1 Dec 199717 Flinders Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TT
Received 5 Dec 2003Baytree Nursery and Garden Centre High Road Weston
Received 3 Dec 2004Records 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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