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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal Mail Cart PH 101 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Aug 2000Land off Banbury Close Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 2019Main Road Nursery Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0PS
Received 31 Dec 2007Land off Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Dec 2024Former: Five Bells Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 1993Adjacent 65 Austendyke Road Weston Hills PE12 6BX
Received 12 Mar 2008West End Cold Stores Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 12 Sept 2008Dearlove Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jun 199228A Battlefields Lane South Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PQ
Received 22 Oct 201310A Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate
Received 24 Nov 2005Sunny Holme Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0ER
Received 2 Aug 2011'Greenhills', Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jan 199630 Cherry Tree Grove Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 1995The Vine Public House 21 Commercial Road Spalding
Received 3 Aug 2007Brooks Farm Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding, Lincs
Received 12 Jun 1992The Anchor Public House Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 2012Two Ways Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BE
Received 23 Dec 2004Greenworld Park Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RN
Received 26 Jul 2002Resthaven 70 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 16 May 201278 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 20 Jan 20054 Francis Street Spalding PE11 1AT
Received 4 Jul 2018Rear of Bridge Hotel Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 4 Jul 2014Barn adjacent to Cowley House Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 26 May 199454 High Street Gosberton
Received 12 Jun 2003Records 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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