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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pygott Crone 10 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 19 Mar 200749 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2XT
Received 25 Oct 20127 Field Close Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NY
Received 21 Mar 200655 Fen Gate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XR
Received 11 Jan 2018Johnson Avenue/Bowditch Road (Land at junction) Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 199534 Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow
Received 25 Mar 2004INTERGREEN UK LTD WASHWAY ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LT
Received 30 Jan 2014Land South of Green Lane/ East of Bacons Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XS
Received 16 Mar 2023Land off High Street and Town Dam Lane Donington
Received 24 Jan 200712-13 Church Gate Spalding
Received 27 Feb 2006SECKFORD LODGE SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UD
Received 16 May 2025Enterprise Way South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1995Lambs Flowers Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 26 Sept 2007Former Post Office Sorting Office The Crescent Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1AF
Received 19 Sept 2011374 and 380 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2001MINT FARMHOUSE 57 STOCKWELL GATE WEST WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6WG
Received 5 Sept 2018Land adj. Priory Cottage Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 199299 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JL
Received 6 Dec 2004The Packing Shed Glenside Pinchbeck SPALDING PE11 3SA
Received 25 Aug 2015The Vicarage Church Walk Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DT
Received 11 Jan 201129 North Parade Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1997Land off St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 3 Jun 2005Hollytree Farm Broadgate Weston
Received 1 Sept 2005Adj. 10 Welbourn Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 May 1996Records 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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