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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
MARRIOTT FARM BLACK HOLE DROVE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QL
Received 2 Feb 202415 to 17 Market Place Long Sutton
Received 20 Nov 2002Camel Gate Spalding Lincs PE12 6ET
Received 7 Jun 201332 HOLLAND ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UL
Received 28 Oct 2024Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 199520 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EJ
Received 2 Mar 2010Priestly House Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding
Received 20 Jun 2014Churchfield Cottage Church Lane Tydd St Mary Cambs
Received 26 May 2000Cley Hall Hotel 22 High Street Spalding
Received 2 Aug 2005Tesco Stores Boston Road Holbeach
Received 19 Oct 2004Adjacent to Hockley House Hockney Hole Lane Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TH
Received 27 Nov 201332 EDINBURGH WALK HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AP
Received 13 May 2015The Bungalow Hundred Fen Gosberton Clough Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Mar 1993WESTFIELD LODGE LOW LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PW
Received 3 Mar 201749 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JN
Received 17 Mar 201546 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TD
Received 19 Feb 2024Communications Tower, Washway House Washway Road Holbeach PE12 7PP
Received 1 Jun 2016Lundys Farm Lapwater Lane Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8EX
Received 3 Aug 20105 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AH
Received 4 Jul 1995Adjacent Sycamore Cottage Green Lane Donington
Received 20 Jun 2003Plots 67-71, Daniels Acre Chaldean Way Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1994Town Farm House Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UA
Received 28 Oct 2003Building Plot Adj. to Ammada Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 28 Oct 19912 Boyfields Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QQ
Received 25 Sept 2002Records 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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