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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SH
Received 15 Jan 2024Springfields Festival Gardens Outlet Centre Camel Gate Spalding
Received 9 Aug 2007Land at 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 28 Jun 202226 Welby Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Feb 2002111 SIX HOUSE BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QG
Received 6 Jul 2020Spalding Energy Project Ltd West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 18 May 2005165 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 18 Mar 2004Unit 3 22A Market Place Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ST
Received 6 Nov 2009Cresswell Close Pinchbeck
Received 4 Apr 2003Land adj. The Anglia Motel Washway Road (A17 trunk road) Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 1994West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 19 Jul 199910 London Road Bedford Court Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1999Lilacre Lutton Bank Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 1998Chestnut House North Pennyhill Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DN
Received 18 Nov 2025Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 5 Dec 2008St Peters Lodge Priory Road Spalding
Received 15 Jan 2007The Cobgate Building Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TD
Received 16 Aug 201180 COMMERCIAL ROAD SPALDING LINCOLNSHIRE PE11 2HE
Received 29 Apr 2016Park Lane Rear 1-3 High Street Long Sutton
Received 4 Jul 2008Coronation Cottage 39 West Street Long Sutton
Received 9 Feb 20064 Pinfold Lane Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JW
Received 4 Dec 2006Unit 4, Crowland Ind. Estate Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 8 Dec 1995Station Road (West) Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Aug 1994Rose Cottage, Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Apr 1996Records 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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