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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear of 58 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7HH
Received 13 Oct 2022Roman Bank Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AT
Received 9 Apr 2013April Cottage Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QR
Received 19 Nov 2012Plot 2, Crossgate Farm Yard Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XX
Received 26 May 2015Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UG
Received 13 May 19992 Manor View Gedney Spalding Lincs. PE12 0DT
Received 28 Nov 2003Land off High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Mar 1998COTSWOLD HOUSE CAMPAINS LANE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EX
Received 29 Feb 2016Former Fire Station Double Street Westlode Street Spalding
Received 11 Jul 2008Unit 43 Springfields Outlet Shopping Camelgate Spalding PE12 6EU
Received 14 Nov 202559 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 27 Apr 200522 SPALDING ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NP
Received 12 Oct 2016DALSPA 45 DELPH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BX
Received 25 Jan 2023Hallgate Fleet Spalding
Received 15 Jan 2001Swap Coat Lane Long Sutton
Received 18 Nov 2004Treetops 75 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HJ
Received 30 Jan 2013Village Hall Main Road Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QG
Received 28 Oct 2011Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1994Duntreath Cackle Hill Holbeach Spalding PE12 8BS
Received 3 Dec 2013Land north of Tudor Lodge Fen Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 10 Mar 2026Monmouth House Monmouth Lane Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LH
Received 7 Sept 200937D E H New Road Spalding
Received 14 May 2002The Former Peacock P H 6 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QD
Received 5 Jul 20122 Station Street Donington
Received 26 Jun 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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