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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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9 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 1996Rear garden: 92 St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 24 Jul 201827 Horsepit Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YB
Received 25 Jun 2002Pennington and Penwardine Pit Lane Gedney Drove End Spalding, Lincs. PE12 9PG
Received 26 Apr 2011212 and 214 Park Road Spalding
Received 8 Sept 2003CECIL FRANCIS OFFICES CECIL FRANCIS BUSINESS PARK BEAR LANE PINCHBECK PE11 3XA
Received 5 Mar 2014Oak Tree Meadow, A16, Spalding PE12 6BJ
Received 19 Oct 20209 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3JP
Received 29 Apr 1997The Vicarage 8 Church Street Spalding PE11 2PB
Received 27 Apr 2017Land Adj. 70 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 5 Jun 2020WEST VIEW HALL GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QG
Received 30 Mar 2021Buildings Adj. Carlton Lodge Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding
Received 9 Jan 2024Land adjacent to The Shrubberies Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 26 Jul 2005Sutton Bridge Power Station Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 19928 Broad Street Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 1997Land south of Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jul 1994The Curlew Centre Memorial Park Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SA
Received 20 Oct 20262 St Annes Way Spalding Lincs PE11 3PN
Received 11 Oct 2002124 NEW ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QA
Received 15 Jun 2017West View Farm Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding PE12 6LW
Received 19 Oct 202663 STONEGATE SPALDING PE11 2PP
Received 1 Sept 202218/19 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Feb 1997The Childers 26 High Road Whaplode
Received 24 Oct 200614 Viceroy Drive Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TS
Received 28 Mar 2024Records 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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