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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 3, Holland Market Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 1996Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 2000Otway House Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Feb 2000Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 199220 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NM
Received 3 Jun 20111 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 1JJ
Received 23 Jan 2025Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Sept 1994'Shangri-La', Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Dec 1994132 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UE
Received 12 Jun 200612 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LW
Received 21 Dec 2009Adjacent 65 Austendyke Road Weston Hills PE12 6BX
Received 31 Oct 200757 Aintree Drive Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3BT
Received 10 Nov 2025The Warehouse Double Street Spalding
Received 18 Nov 200230 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 15 Oct 2009Jack Bucks Farm Hall Farm Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6PA
Received 16 Jan 201845 & 48 & Longs Warehouse and vacant plot Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 1993Plot 4 The Business Park Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 23 Aug 200737 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 8 Aug 201796 RAILWAY LANE SOUTH SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9XA
Received 20 May 2025The Bungalow Fulney Nursery Rangells Gate Spalding, Lincs
Received 13 Mar 1992The Old School Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 12 Jul 2019West Waize Langary Gate Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0RU
Received 2 May 2013Dane Lodge Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 1993Elsom Cross Printers 5 London Road Spalding PE11 2TA
Received 8 Mar 2013Records 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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