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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Whaplode (CofE) Primary School Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding, Lincs
Received 10 Feb 1999Rear of 5 Alexandra Road Spalding PE11 2QA
Received 6 May 2003Anglia Motel Washway Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LT
Received 22 Aug 2023ENCHANTMENT LODGE 1 CHERRY HOLT LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RJ
Received 29 Jan 2014Land Adj. 124 Station Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 22 May 20012 Fantail Close Spalding Lincs PE11 3YN
Received 8 Feb 200265 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JR
Received 7 Mar 20113 Viking Way Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 200731 Crosslands Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4TU
Received 27 Jul 2015Co-operative Store High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 19937 - 11 East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 26 Feb 2003High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TG
Received 28 Mar 2019South of The Meadows Lowgate Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QP
Received 18 Jul 2025The White Hart Market Place Spalding
Received 17 May 2002Advertising Site Corner of Pinchbeck Road & West Elloe Avenue Spalding PE11 1QL
Received 8 Apr 2022SPALDING ACADEMY SCHOOL NEVILLE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2EJ
Received 23 Nov 2020Univeg Katope (UK) Ltd Stephenson Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SW
Received 13 May 201348-50 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 12 Dec 201937 Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6HY
Received 13 Aug 202683 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7ED
Received 7 Nov 20051 Winfrey Close Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Apr 2002The Parsonage Halmergate Spalding
Received 8 Dec 2005Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6JX
Received 21 Jul 2015178 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 21 Jul 2022Records 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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