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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37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Church Cottage Church Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 199446 Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QE
Received 12 Apr 2011THE YEWS QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SJ
Received 6 Feb 202039 CHURCH STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UA
Received 6 Jul 20224 Pinfold Lane Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JW
Received 16 Jul 2007Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 2012"Rise 'n Set" Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Sept 1993H Hargrave & Co., Brunel Road Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 22 Oct 1997Plank Drove Crowland PE6 0BY
Received 9 Feb 2017The South Holland Centre Market Place/Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1996Cowards Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Aug 1996'Fairview', Belnie Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 1995Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 13 Aug 199223 Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8BB
Received 8 Sept 2011Plots 1-32 Off Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 3 Mar 200417 High Street (Eastern Delight) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 1996GREYSTONES COMMON DROVE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0HL
Received 24 Nov 2023The Congregational Chapel Money Bridge Lane Money Bridge West Pinchbeck
Received 26 Aug 199715 Town Drove Quadring Spalding
Received 16 Nov 2010Adjacent: Saracen House Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8AZ
Received 2 Dec 2020A17/A1101 Wisbech Road Roundabout Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AF
Received 30 Mar 2021Counter Drain Drove Tongue End
Received 24 Sept 20018 Baxter Gardens Spalding Lincs. PE11 3GL
Received 8 May 20034 Callows Cottages Washway Road Holbeach
Received 4 Jul 2005Records 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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