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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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6 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 17 May 20076 Viceroy Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TS
Received 7 Feb 2003Harvey's Barn Days Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4XT
Received 18 Aug 2025Land at Fendyke Farm off Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0LQ
Received 12 Sept 2014Land adjacent 31 High Street Gosberton
Received 29 Jun 200513 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Feb 1992FLEET PRIMARY SCHOOL WOOD LANE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NN
Received 2 Dec 20146 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2010Adj. Laburnum House Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 199634 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QA
Received 2 Oct 202028 London Road Long Sutton
Received 2 May 200261 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 17 Mar 2017280 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 21 Mar 201440 Woad Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Oct 2002J O SIMS LTD PUDDING LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TJ
Received 25 Feb 20201 Queens Bank Brotherhouse Bar Cowbit PE6 0JR
Received 30 Jul 2007PAUL COTT TRANSPORT BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AQ
Received 8 Feb 20178 Kelly Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TX
Received 20 Nov 2012Agricultural barn at Eaugate Road Moulton Eaugate Spalding
Received 14 May 2015Lakeview 1 Pinder Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4SN
Received 5 Feb 2026Ayscoughfee Hall Museum Churchgate Spalding Lincs PE11 2RA
Received 16 Dec 2009Platform Drive (plots 27, 28 & 29) Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 199715 Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TL
Received 22 Nov 201012 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 23 Aug 1999Records 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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