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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adj. Anglia Motel Washway Road Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 25 Apr 2022Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 30 Mar 2006Plot adjacent 52 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 27 Jun 2007Grasmere 15 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LB
Received 28 Jan 2002Wygate Park Spalding Wygate Spalding PE11 1DT
Received 12 Sept 20112 KESTON ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 5AB
Received 1 Nov 2022ST MARYS ENDOWED C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL 116 BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AE
Received 26 May 2016Counter Drain Drove Tongue End Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 2001Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 12 Dec 2002PELOTON PRODUCE LTD WEST COB GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QN
Received 21 Aug 2024ROSE VILLA TYDD ROAD WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PZ
Received 31 May 2022London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1997Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JP
Received 9 Jan 2012Thorney Machinery Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 9 Mar 20055 Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PE
Received 26 Mar 2024Duncan Toplis Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 2 Jun 200843 Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AA
Received 11 Nov 201025 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XN
Received 2 Nov 202229 WEDGEWOOD DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3FJ
Received 28 Mar 2018Grange Farm Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jun 1994Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 1992Land East of Little London (Former Long Sutton Butterfly and Wildlife Park) Long Sutton Spalding
Received 13 Oct 2023Adj. 74 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NS
Received 17 Oct 2023Crossroads Farm Quadring Bank Quadring Fen
Received 14 Feb 2005Records 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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