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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land off Glenside North Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 24 May 2023Adj. 11 Badgate Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TH
Received 13 Oct 2020Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 9 Oct 2026Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 1999BIRCHWOOD DAWSMERE ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9NW
Received 13 Oct 2016J L FARMS LTD RANGELL GATE SPALDING PE12 6EW
Received 2 Jul 201546 Roman Road Moulton Chapel PE12 0XQ
Received 13 Feb 200917 Swindlers Drove Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6BS
Received 17 Jun 200570 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AA
Received 20 Feb 2006NENE LODGE EAST BANK SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9YT
Received 14 Mar 20148 DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NF
Received 8 Sept 20217 North Parade Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AJ
Received 29 Mar 2017Ashleigh House Guanock Gate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LU
Received 23 Aug 1996Land off Sunnydale Close Surfleet Spalding
Received 29 Nov 2022Garden adj. 35 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 5 Mar 1992Rose Cottage Farm Yard (between Nos. 314 & 328) Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 2000Former: Plough Inn Public House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3EN
Received 20 Nov 2017Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LX
Received 26 Jun 2018Between 45 and 47A Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RH
Received 18 Aug 201015 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1993222 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding
Received 20 May 199279 Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 200457 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PW
Received 27 Feb 2008Spalding Friends Meeting House Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 2012Records 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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