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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Old Vicarage 8 Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 31 Jul 2008Unit 21 Springfields Outlet Shopping Centre Camel Gate Spalding Lincs PE12 6EU
Received 6 Jun 2011SARANDEN 22 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NL
Received 2 Sept 202012 HALL HILL ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JB
Received 13 Jan 2017Pumping Station Cottage 1 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5RE
Received 28 Dec 201290 East Cobgate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QJ
Received 31 Jul 1995APPLEGATES CAMPAINS LANE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EX
Received 24 Jan 2018The Haven, Daniels Gate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 1996Millgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 16 Feb 2021Land to west of Kirkstone and Dorset House Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 1994West Field St Thomas's Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2YP
Received 18 Feb 2011GUTTERIDGE SERVICES LIMITED WARDENTREE PARK PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UU
Received 23 Mar 20231 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PN
Received 8 Nov 20066 Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XA
Received 15 Aug 2005OS. Pt. 3375, Churchway Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 9 Feb 1995Land at Tysdale Farm Common Way Tydd St Mary PE13 5QH
Received 20 Apr 202111 Millfield Gardens Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0HA
Received 19 Oct 2010Substation 2 Wygate Park Spalding Lincs PE11 1DT
Received 14 Jun 2012Adderley House London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 1992BRESBY HOUSE NEW ROAD QUADRING EAUDIKE SPALDING PE11 4QB
Received 6 Feb 2014Land at Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 24 Jul 2002Land off Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 1996Lambert House, Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Feb 1998Wygate Park Spalding Wygate Spalding PE11 1DT
Received 30 May 2013Records 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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