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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former Orchid Public House 2 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 14 Jul 2011Holbeach Public Toilets Church Street Holbeach
Received 29 Apr 200236 Fennell Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RP
Received 1 Feb 2007Oldacres Mill High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 20001 Backgate Cowbit Spalding, Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 6 Jul 1999Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HP
Received 22 Jan 2004St Brelades Fengate Road West Pinchbeck PE11 3NE
Received 10 Mar 2004Low Road Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 1992Land at Further Old Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8QE
Received 5 Aug 2024Spalding Grammar School Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XH
Received 22 Feb 2010Ensharla Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs PE12 6UE
Received 30 Jul 200410 PETERBOROUGH ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BA
Received 14 Dec 20179 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 19 Aug 2026161 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 23 Dec 2003Sycamores Gosberton Bank Surfleet
Received 8 Feb 2008147 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 1 Oct 1999103 JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EP
Received 5 Oct 2026Land off Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Feb 1998Land at Foxes Low Road (Plots 50-72 & 86-99) Holbeach Lincs
Received 7 Mar 2001DOVEHIRNE FARM BOURNE ROAD WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NQ
Received 27 Jun 2018GLANFORD HOUSE MAIN ROAD HOP POLE SPALDING PE11 3HL
Received 20 Dec 2023'Ferndale', Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jun 1995Plot 129, Falklands Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 19935 Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TL
Received 25 Sept 2017Records 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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