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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ing Cottage Ing Drove Donington Spalding PE11 4XB
Received 19 Sept 2012Adjacent to 144 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 9 Oct 202644 Aintree Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3BS
Received 25 Aug 2005Parish of Postland Crowland Peterborough
Received 20 Jun 1997New Bungalow Burr Lane Spalding
Received 3 Sept 2003Swindlers Drove Low Fulney Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6PN
Received 3 Apr 200093-95 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SD
Received 2 Jul 2004Rivendell Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas
Received 2 May 2002Former Post Office 5 Sheep Market Spalding
Received 1 Jul 200430A Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 1996Welland Hall London Road Spalding
Received 2 Dec 1992The Old Court House Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BB
Received 11 Apr 2019Plots 1 & 5 William Close Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 6 Oct 2016143 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 2UN
Received 1 Jun 199460 SOUTH DROVE LUTTON MARSH SPALDING PE12 9NT
Received 30 Dec 2014Holbeach Technology Park Park Road Holbeach
Received 29 Aug 2007Hagbeach Gate Whaplode Lincs
Received 12 Jun 2000Cley Hall Hotel 22 High Street Spalding
Received 18 Aug 2005129 Pennygate Spalding PE11 1NW
Received 12 Aug 2015242 Lutton Gate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 1998Plots 64-66,72-87 Daniels Acre Chaldean Way Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 1993THE COTTAGE BECK BANK QUADRING FEN SPALDING PE11 4RA
Received 9 Mar 202117 Mallard Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6ND
Received 22 Sept 2004Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 1998Records 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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