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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Marys Church Church Street Pinchbeck
Received 17 Aug 2006Adjacent: 217 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SL
Received 23 Aug 2016Connaught House 18 Market Street Long Sutton
Received 15 May 2008Land off Phoenix Lane Crowland
Received 5 Nov 2024Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs PE11 3NA
Received 1 Jun 1994HOLBEACH AND ELLOE HOSPITAL TRUST BOSTON ROAD NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AQ
Received 26 Jul 2023The Sycamores Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AA
Received 27 Apr 2006Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 NE
Received 2 Jan 1992Plot 1, Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Mar 1999EMG Ford St Johns Road Spalding
Received 13 Dec 20063 Westminster Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2UW
Received 5 Sept 201289 Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UJ
Received 14 Jul 20081 Forge Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1XD
Received 26 Jan 2006Parish of Spalding
Received 7 Apr 1993Port Sutton Bridge West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QR
Received 12 Dec 1994ROSE LODGE STOCKWELL GATE NORTH WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6WH
Received 7 Jul 2022Centre of Excellence in Agri-Food Land off A151 Food Enterprise Zone Holbeach PE12 7BF
Received 19 Jan 202122 Ladywood Road Spalding
Received 30 Mar 2007Adjacent 35 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 4 Dec 2006Site Adj to 30 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6BX
Received 29 Sept 2017The Lodge Serpentine House Barrington Gate Holbeach PE12 7LB
Received 9 May 2007West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 1998The Corner House Beck Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3QN
Received 24 Jul 2007Adj. Fordfield House 51 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TD
Received 17 Oct 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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