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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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The Manor Washway Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 16 Apr 1993Holding 141J Chapel Farm Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas
Received 14 Jan 2002Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SQ
Received 11 Jan 1993Land adjacent 2 Clifton Villas Chapelgate Gedney
Received 11 Jun 200817 Villa Close Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JR
Received 13 Mar 200355 Watergate Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PY
Received 24 Jan 2000Spalding Parish Church of St Mary St Nicholas Church Street Spalding
Received 22 Sept 20081 Sherwood Drive Spalding Lincs. PE11 1QW
Received 16 Dec 2002Mallard House Low Road Crowland PE6 0BX
Received 19 Feb 200427 Church Lane Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0ER
Received 11 Jun 200930 BALMORAL WAY HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7RP
Received 1 Nov 2016Off Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 6 Sept 200118 PARK ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7EE
Received 9 Jan 2015THE COTTAGE 7 WESTHORPE ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4EW
Received 23 Nov 2022Land at Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 1996McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AF
Received 14 Mar 2012144 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 1999Fengate Moulton Chapel
Received 23 Dec 2002WYVERN HOUSE HULLS DROVE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0JU
Received 22 Jul 2020The Ferns Beck Bank Quadring Fen Spalding PE11 4QY
Received 17 Oct 202516 LINDUM WAY DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TX
Received 11 Jun 20211 Cobgate Close Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Mar 1998Cradge Bank Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 1996BANK FARM LITTLE DOG DROVE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RR
Received 2 Sept 2021Records 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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