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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pinchbeck Hall 58 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YA
Received 7 Sept 2026War Memorial Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RN
Received 23 Feb 2021MILLHOUSE 186 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TJ
Received 14 Nov 2016Land behind Chestnut Farm Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 1999Adjacent: 27 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 4 Oct 2018Five Bells Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 21 Oct 2002376 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs PE11 3LL
Received 24 May 2007Westholme 32 West End Holbeach
Received 3 Jun 2004'The Chestnuts', Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 1995Tom Thumb Nursery Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 4 Jun 199328 Hocklesgate Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8NF
Received 15 Jun 2007Rear garden of 21 Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XF
Received 12 Dec 20174 Edgefield Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6RQ
Received 11 Jul 2007The Allotment Scoldhall Lane Gosberton
Received 17 Nov 2005Port Sutton Bridge West Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 2000West Nurseries Ltd 20 Mallard Road Low Fulney
Received 8 Dec 200627 Cloot Drove Crowland Lincs PE6 0JG
Received 21 Dec 1998Plot Adj 80 Wygate Road Spalding
Received 10 Sept 2003Parish of Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Aug 1994Holbeach House Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8LA
Received 17 Jun 2013Moulton Fish & Chip Shop High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 19974 Royce Road Spalding PE11 2JA
Received 28 Jan 2009Land off The Hayfields Wygate Park Spalding
Received 9 May 2006Plots 7, 8 & A Westbourne Gardens Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 2000Records 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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