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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UF
Received 20 Aug 200712 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BA
Received 19 Jan 1998Millfield Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UR
Received 9 Aug 2019Service Station within development on land north & south of Barrier Bank (B1173) and north-west of the A1175 & A16 on the southern edge of Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Jun 2017HOVENDEN HOUSE FLEET BANK FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LW
Received 9 Mar 2023White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Nov 2000Land off Milestone Lane Pinchbeck
Received 8 May 2007Plot 129, Falklands Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1993Land off Hallgate & Fen Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 6 May 2025ROSE COTTAGE 21 STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 30 Mar 2015Land at Harvester Way Crowland PE6 0GB
Received 3 Jul 20187 Sheila Crescent Spalding Lincs PE11 1LE
Received 5 Jul 2004Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 1996Plot 3, Churchway Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 1997Windy Willow Siltside Gosberton Risegate
Received 18 May 2005The Old Chapel Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding, Lincs
Received 22 Dec 1992New River Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0RY
Received 29 Oct 201229 Welland Terrace London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Oct 1995Alexine Malting Lane Donington
Received 18 May 200750 Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8LA
Received 22 Nov 2021Lowgate Gedney
Received 17 Aug 2005St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 22 Jun 200521 High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TX
Received 7 Apr 2017The Cottage Beck Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3QN
Received 2 Apr 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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