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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holly Lodge Facilities West Marsh Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UW
Received 24 Jan 200628 PARK ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7EE
Received 4 Aug 202125 Station Street Spalding
Received 4 Mar 2008BAY LODGE CARE HOME 36 FEN ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QA
Received 23 May 2017The Cottage Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8QL
Received 13 Jun 2001HORSEMOOR HOUSE HORSEMOOR DROVE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EY
Received 11 Feb 2016Land at Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jan 1998Sir John Gleed School Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2EJ
Received 16 Aug 2013Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding
Received 20 Feb 1992Woodlands 124 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QG
Received 21 Mar 2002UNIT 4 CROWLAND CAR WASH 64 PETERBOROUGH ROAD CROWLAND PE6 0BA
Received 16 Jul 2024Adjacent: 5 Puddingpoke Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9HZ
Received 9 May 2016Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 23 May 1995Bank House, Dear Love Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 1999Cherry Tree Cottage Damgate Road Holbeach
Received 18 Feb 2003Adjacent 3 Chapel Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 2011MANOR FARM MARSH ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING
Received 27 Mar 2018Land south of Counter Drain Drove Tongue End Spalding PE11 3JJ
Received 27 Apr 2016Chapel Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3HJ
Received 3 Jul 2002GREGORY COTTAGE HURN BANK HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JQ
Received 4 May 2020TRENT FARM DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NA
Received 27 Apr 2021Land North West of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 12 Apr 202295 PILGRIMS WAY SPALDING PE11 1LU
Received 11 Feb 2022Enterprise Way Off Benner Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 1996Records 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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