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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Melrose Cottage Roman Bank Holbeach Bank
Received 30 Mar 200413 Ludlow Gardens Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jul 2000Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 2001Crossroads Nursery Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 4 Nov 199822 Station Street Spalding PE11 1EB
Received 29 Mar 2017Opposite 109 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 4 Mar 2005Spalding Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jun 2000The Woodlands Boston Road Gosberton
Received 5 Feb 2007Land adj. Willow Cottage Market Way Pincbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PE
Received 4 Apr 2017Scoldhall Nursery Scoldhall Lane Surfleet
Received 9 Oct 200136 Beaufort Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2YR
Received 10 Dec 2007The Crown and Woolpack 7 High Street Long Sutton
Received 24 Aug 200735 - 47 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Mar 2000THE VILLA 83 NEW ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RQ
Received 24 Aug 2018Bridge Street - Market Place Spalding
Received 5 Mar 2004Land adjacent 21 and 29 River Lane Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Oct 2016"Jensalbry", Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Feb 1994Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Apr 2000The Red Lion, 6 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 May 1996Ambridge Foremans Bridge Sutton St. James Spalding Lincs PE12 0HU
Received 19 Nov 1991The Anglia Business Centre Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 28 Jun 200777 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 25 Jun 2018Land off Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 27 Jul 200559-61 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 10 Jan 2007Records 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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