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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holland House, High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Oct 199588A Spalding Common Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3AU
Received 18 May 1998WILLOUGHBY HOUSE DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ND
Received 23 Apr 2014Former National Tyre Depot Swan Street Spalding
Received 3 Jun 2003Off Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 1998Plots 325 and 326 Lewis Court Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Sept 2009Crown Farm and Whaplode House Farmhouse Stockwell Gate Whaplode
Received 8 Jun 200687 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JU
Received 8 Jan 2001Holmfield House 12 Station Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UQ
Received 11 Oct 201212 WEST END HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LW
Received 8 Jan 2014Land Adj. 6 Abbey Path Spalding PE11 1AY
Received 25 Sept 2020Rose Cottage Water Garden Centre Glenside North Pinchbeck
Received 20 Jan 200424 Market Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SS
Received 4 Aug 20094 Wimberley Close Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6WA
Received 7 Sept 2009Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 1996Belnie House Farm Buildings Belnie Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HN
Received 18 Dec 2025FAIRVIEW FARM 19 MILL DROVE SOUTH COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6FS
Received 26 Sept 2018Adjacent 12 Station Road Donington
Received 10 Aug 2006Spalding Golf Club Park Lane Surfleet Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Jan 199310 Church Street Holbeach
Received 8 Mar 200442 Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 24 Nov 2005Garage Site, Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 May 199592 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BY
Received 22 Sept 200915A Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 2003Records 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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