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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QH
Received 20 Jun 1995Melbros Ltd 64-68 Surfleet Road Pinchbeck
Received 31 Oct 2008Land at 52 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 25 Mar 2003Ayscoughfee Hall Museum & Gardens Church Gate Spalding PE11 2RA
Received 12 May 20223 Abbey Mews Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EH
Received 5 Jul 2001Decoy Farm Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RR
Received 7 Mar 2011Orchard Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3EN
Received 11 Jul 2005YORK PLACE DAM GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QL
Received 15 Mar 2024ACORN ENGINEERING HOLBEACH LTD SLUICE FARM SLUICE ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS PE12 8HF
Received 1 Nov 2022Compact Car Corner Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AG
Received 16 Feb 2026North Road Gedney Hill
Received 10 May 2002Off Church Lane Lutton Spalding
Received 16 Oct 2018Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Haverfield Road Spalding
Received 21 Oct 2008Willow Cottage Broad Drove Gosberton Clough
Received 25 May 2006'Fairview', Belnie Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1995Lefthand side driveway overhanging school/car park The Old School House 1 Broad Lane Moulton PE12 6PN
Received 31 May 201828 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 28 Nov 2023London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 16 Aug 2017Plot 1 Joys Bank Holbeach St John
Received 19 Feb 2002Monks House Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 19947 Cross Street Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Aug 199531 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 15 Feb 2017The Gables Millgate Road Whaplode St Catherine
Received 1 Sept 2006115 QUEENS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2JH
Received 4 Apr 2025Records 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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