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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 adj. Corner House Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QN
Received 21 May 199864 Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1SY
Received 22 Jun 2012Land at Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 26 Apr 2004Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Apr 2000Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding
Received 22 May 2001Land at & north of Swan Street Winsover Road & west of Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Aug 1995The Rams Nene Terrace Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LD
Received 15 Mar 2010Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1992Quadring Cowley & Brown's School Church End Donington Spalding PE11 4SQ
Received 29 Nov 2013Land North: 13 Palin Drive Spalding
Received 9 Jan 201911 London Road Spalding
Received 29 Jul 2008OLLARDS FARM HALL GATE ROAD THROCKENHOLT SPALDING PE12 0QS
Received 11 May 2015Land South of Green Lane/ East of Bacons Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XS
Received 25 Aug 2023Crown Hall Farm Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding, Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1992Littleworth Drove OS 0130, 0740, 1528, 003 (PT) Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 29 May 1998Low Road Holbeach Hurn
Received 11 Mar 2002Land off Jiggles Gate Gedney Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jan 1998Adjacent: 9 Church Lane Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs PE13 5QJ
Received 29 Jan 2018St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 24 May 2006CHARITY FARM 87 CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JW
Received 26 Feb 2015Gatewood Farm Lutton Gate Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QJ
Received 3 Jun 1993Land Adj 44 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EF
Received 20 Oct 20203 Walnut View Spalding
Received 23 Nov 2005The Parkway Off Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 30 Sept 2021Records 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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