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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
'The Lodge Cattery' Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3ND
Received 1 Jun 200958 Bridge Road (Formerly Main Road Garage) Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs.
Received 12 Aug 1998POPLAR FARM OLD FENDYKE SUTTON ST. JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HE
Received 24 Sept 2018Playing Field Off Badgate Road Donington
Received 11 Dec 20142 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 19952 Kemp Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0HE
Received 4 Sept 2006Former Dunns Seeds Factory Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 29 Aug 1997The Mill Mill Lane Gedney Hill
Received 11 Jun 2008High Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 1992Benner Road Wardentree Lane Ind. Estate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 1992The Engine Engine Bank Moulton Chapel
Received 21 May 2007ROSECOTT FARM DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ND
Received 29 Nov 2021The Rowans Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TB
Received 29 Oct 2012Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HG
Received 29 Apr 1998Barr Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3HA
Received 12 Apr 2010Cross Keys Villa Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Long Sutton
Received 11 Sept 2003Cackle Hill Farm Boston Road Holbeach
Received 6 May 200897 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 13 Dec 2007COMMERCE HOUSE 16 - 20 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING
Received 19 Oct 2022Land between 65 and 71 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HY
Received 29 Mar 201268 TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QN
Received 12 Mar 2025Chailey House Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 2010Mansfield House 21 High Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jul 1999D AND S FACTORS PINDER LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SN
Received 16 Sept 2014Records 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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