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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 11 Dec 2001Ayscoughfee Hall School London Road Spalding PE11 2TE
Received 6 May 2003Moulton East Fen Queens Bank Whaplode Drove
Received 4 Aug 200318 Watergate Quadring
Received 16 Nov 2005THE BIRCHES RANGELL GATE SPALDING PE12 6EW
Received 14 Sept 2020Bellevue Garage Station Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 2 Mar 199218 Wimberley Close Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6WA
Received 10 Jun 2008MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS LTD HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING PE12 6JP
Received 11 Nov 2016Land off Worlds End Road Tydd St Mary PE13 5QN
Received 29 Oct 2020Gimmels Gate Nurseries Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Spalding
Received 18 Oct 1996Chase Farm Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Lincs. PE12 9AF
Received 2 Aug 2005Spalding Common (Pt. OS Nos. 1564/1568) Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 199712 MEDWAY CLOSE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HS
Received 15 Feb 20217 Benner Road Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 23 Jun 199314 STOCKHOUSE LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AR
Received 3 Nov 2017Reform Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AN
Received 15 Oct 1993Mallard House Farm Mallard Hurn Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Aug 1993Land adjacent 2 Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JX
Received 15 Jun 200645 Albert Street Spalding PE11 2LD
Received 18 Nov 20081 Postland Road Crowland Lincs PE6 0JA
Received 7 Jun 1999Red House Farm Bass Chase Holbeach Bank PE12 8BY
Received 21 May 2007Manor Farm West Cobgate Moulton Spalding PE12 6QN
Received 19 Dec 20247 Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XA
Received 1 Dec 2025Adj 53 Station Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 22 Oct 1991Records 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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