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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Off Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AD
Received 21 Jun 201311 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 14 Nov 2023Tinsleys Foods Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding, Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1994Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 1992Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XX
Received 11 May 2026Orchard House Blue Gowt Drove Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PX
Received 10 Dec 199829 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XU
Received 26 Oct 1993ELSAM CROSS AND CO 5 - 6 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 31 Mar 2015Brunel Road Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 199949 Helmsley Way Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 199417 Barbers Drove North Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 21 Jan 2021Argus House 56 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XT
Received 5 Aug 20092 Thorpe Avenue Fengate Moulton Chapel
Received 16 Jun 20035 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jun 200028 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 2002Parish of Holbeach
Received 15 May 199228 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1996Welland Hall London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Nov 1992Mallard Nursery 8A Mallard Road Spalding
Received 21 Dec 2010Land off Willows Close - Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 7 Sept 200420 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 8 Jun 2023Pt. Plot 399 adj. Corner Farm, Cuckoo, Pode Hole, Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jun 1992Holbeach House Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 20 Dec 2007Cavell House Delgate Bank Weston
Received 10 May 2006Records 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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