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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
37,481 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 200135 Lincolns Avenue Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PQ
Received 30 Jun 2006Cowbit Primary School Barrier Bank Cowbit
Received 25 May 2005Land adj. 70 London Road Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Aug 1995Land Adjacent 39 Lowgate Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NL
Received 20 Oct 2015Lincolnshire Cooperative Ltd Funeral Home St Johns Road Spalding PE11 1JD
Received 11 May 2017The Welland Public House 66 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 1996Land off : Giles Road and Piccard Drive Spalding
Received 23 Feb 2009BECK FARM COTTAGE BECK BANK GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JL
Received 31 Jan 202044 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 1993'Wayside', Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 22 Aug 199531 South Street Crowland
Received 13 Jun 201131 WRIGHTS LANE SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RH
Received 31 Jan 202227A Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TD
Received 3 Aug 2016"Ryecroft", Ryefield Lane (Pt OS No. 0086) Holbeach Fen Spalding
Received 6 Jan 19983 Dowgate Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1NG
Received 18 Jul 2003Adjacent Thornbrook Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 9 Aug 2004Colreta Old Fen Dyke Sutton St James
Received 21 Jul 2006'Newhaven', Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Sept 1996William Stukeley CE Primary School Spalding Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 31 Jan 200031 Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs. PE12 0XJ
Received 28 Jul 200310 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 13 Mar 20082 CROSSLANDS DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TU
Received 6 Nov 2024Off Grange Hill Road Fen Farm Barns Tydd St Marys Fen
Received 16 Jun 2003Records 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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