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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former British Sugar Factory West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 16 Oct 2001Rose Farm Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 20 Jul 199325 Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 1BP
Received 20 Aug 2004The Curlew Centre Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9SA
Received 5 Jul 2023Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 6 Nov 1991Rear of 13 Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 200115 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 1994Brenchley House Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 1999416 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DA
Received 8 Mar 202318 Chestnut Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NE
Received 16 Jul 200416 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JF
Received 19 Aug 2010Land off St Margarets Quadring Spalding PE11 4PR
Received 13 Jun 2013Unit 46 Springfields Outlet Shopping Centre Camelgate Spalding PE12 6EU
Received 12 Jul 2011Land Off Damgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 18 Apr 2023Nationwide Produce Offices Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7QS
Received 8 Dec 201747 Delamore Way Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Aug 1995Weyside Stonegate Gedney Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0BY
Received 3 Mar 2003Land west of River Nene Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Nov 2003Land off West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 23 May 200885 London Road Spalding
Received 28 Aug 2001Off Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1995Holbeach County Primary School Boston Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 23 Jul 199930 THISTLE GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1HJ
Received 22 Jan 2024322 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding
Received 20 Feb 2006Records 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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