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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Glebe Field (North Boundary) Off Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RU
Received 21 Dec 2017Pt. OS. 7022 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Apr 19992 East Elloe Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NB
Received 20 Mar 2006The Friends Meeting House Westlode Street Spalding
Received 15 Jun 2005Railway Footbridge between St Johns Road and Green Lane Spalding
Received 13 Aug 2003Brook House Beck Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3QN
Received 23 Oct 200733B Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 2017Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NE
Received 18 Jan 1995Rear of 67 London Road Long Sutton
Received 7 Apr 200418-19 Broad Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1TB
Received 17 Jul 2025Former Fleet Road Nursery Fleet Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LD
Received 24 Aug 2022Baytree Nurseries and Garden Centre High Road Weston
Received 29 Aug 2006BAKKAVOR WEST MARSH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2BB
Received 22 Jul 2021Patchett Lodge Stukeley Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LJ
Received 28 Aug 2020Woodlands Hotel Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 May 1993The Bungalow, Black Barn Road Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Sept 199542 FEN GATE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XL
Received 4 Mar 2026Gosberton House Special School Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 18 Nov 2004Site Adj. Lea House 29 River Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6NX
Received 16 Aug 2018Lutton Garnsgate Road Lutton Garnsgate Gedney
Received 16 Aug 2005Ivanda Nursery Monks House Lane Spalding PE11 3LH
Received 9 Feb 2023The Vicarage 19 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UD
Received 20 Mar 2020The Bull Public House Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 1995Former New Bridge Inn Site Slipe Drove West Pinchbeck PE11 3NF
Received 22 Oct 2020Records 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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