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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crossgate Farm House 58 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4SJ
Received 29 May 20186 AVIGNON ROAD SPALDING PE11 1HW
Received 22 Apr 2016Plots 25, 26, 27 & 28 Crossgate Lane/Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 22 Apr 199314 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Sept 199811 Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 1997Adjacent to Braemar Coalbeach Lane South Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BL
Received 10 Apr 2015THE OLD COTTAGE LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 23 Oct 2018The Red Garage Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 1994Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 201041 Fleet Road Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8LA
Received 3 Aug 2017Libra Lodge Eastgate Fleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 Jan 200043 Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs. PE11 4LA
Received 24 Aug 1999Eddison Court Benner Road Pinchbeck
Received 5 Dec 2001Cowbit Drove (Off Starlode Drove) West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 9 May 2018TYSDALE MANOR COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY WISBECH PE13 5QH
Received 2 Dec 20246 Market Way Pinchbeck
Received 27 Nov 2006Little London Spalding
Received 18 Mar 2003Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 28 Oct 2003Land east of former Plough Inn Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JR
Received 12 Mar 2012Land off Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8JT
Received 24 Jun 2009Land at Low Road/Queens Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jan 1999Land adjacent 5 Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 2000Land rear 42 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 26 Sept 2006Tointons Motors 271 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6TJ
Received 5 Jan 2005Records 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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