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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 14 Mulberry Way Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Aug 2000Methodist Chapel Mill Bank Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 2000Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 13 Apr 2006Spalding Distribution Services Stephenson Avenue South Holland Enterprise Park Pinchbeck
Received 22 Mar 20026 Chaucers Way Spalding Lincs
Received 31 May 2002Mallard House Farm Mallard Hurn Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XF
Received 23 Feb 2005Roman Bank Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jun 2002WAITES FARM BARNS SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LD
Received 15 Feb 202210 MARKET PLACE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4ST
Received 28 Apr 201623 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 1 Apr 2008North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill
Received 15 May 2006SWALLOW COTTAGE BIRDS DROVE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BE
Received 20 Mar 202410 Abbey Walk Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EP
Received 26 May 1993Chappell Centre Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QF
Received 9 Mar 2026Bank House Broad Street Spalding
Received 16 Oct 20065 Ranville Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YD
Received 19 Dec 1995Land South of Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 2019Land adj. 98 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 1995Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 199623 Holbeach Road Spalding PE11 2HX
Received 3 Oct 201232 PARK ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7EE
Received 18 Oct 2024Land rear 60 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 14 May 2009Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 199816 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 25 Oct 2016Records 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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