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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
37,482 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mackays 11/12 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 7 Jun 2004The Bungalow Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 Aug 1998Hurdletree Farm Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding, Lincs PE12 6SS
Received 16 Feb 199967 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 1997Land at High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 1999Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 1999Ladyman Lodge 2 Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3JA
Received 27 Apr 2010Co-op Welcome 6 Market Place Donington
Received 30 Sept 2004Redmile Lane Pinchbeck
Received 7 Mar 2006West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 1992Adjacent to Rowan Lowgate Fleet Hargate
Received 24 Apr 2006Machins Site North Parade Holbeach
Received 23 Jun 1993Site Adj. Silverdene Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NR
Received 2 Mar 2020THE ELMS 35 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TE
Received 25 Feb 2020The Gables Camelgate and Roman Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 6ES
Received 11 Jun 2012NORTHOLME POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0JB
Received 16 May 2016The Hollies Farm Yard Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 12 Feb 2015Hawthorn Barn Black Hole Drove West Pinchbeck PE11 3QL
Received 7 Apr 2008PRODUCE WORLD EAST BANK SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9YB
Received 17 May 2017LYNTON PILLARS MAIN ROAD WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TP
Received 7 Aug 2023MOOR SOLAR LTD LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 15 Oct 2015The Royal British Legion Chapel Street Crowland PE6 0AR
Received 26 Nov 2001Greenshires Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding, Lincs PE11 4RD
Received 29 Mar 200480-86 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 23 Nov 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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