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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Keston Nurseries Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 199827 Church Lane Crowland PE6 0ER
Received 18 Apr 2002West Dale Drove Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XG
Received 25 Aug 20108 GREENFIELDS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BJ
Received 22 May 2019Ayscoughfee Hall Museum & Gardens Church Gate Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2RA
Received 30 Sept 2025Pt OS. 2674, Off Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 14 Oct 1997Commercial Property Adj. 34 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 29 Jul 2026Glen Haven Glen Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 1994Off Pearl Court Holbeach
Received 2 Jun 2008Damson House Shivean Gate Moulton
Received 20 May 200221 Braybrooks Way Moulton Chapel Spalidng PE12 0QA
Received 4 Dec 2017Walpole House 81 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 19 Jan 200720A Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2XN
Received 14 Jun 20135 Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 7BH
Received 17 Mar 1999The Bull Hotel Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 28 Jan 2008137 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TW
Received 24 Oct 20167 Lowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Aug 1996Chrian 14 West Bank Crowland PE6 0HP
Received 13 Dec 2001Witten Cottage 3 Post Office Lane Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Aug 2009'Riverside', Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 19978 Quaker Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Mar 1992Land adj Unit 2 Westlode Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2AF
Received 15 Jul 2026Pinchbeck East CE Primary School Fennell Road Pinchbeck
Received 12 Dec 2006Day Care Centre Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 15 Oct 2004Records 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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