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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot rear of 2 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UF
Received 4 Apr 2011Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 1991Plot 3 Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 199888 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RB
Received 12 May 2004Bramley House, Church End Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 199738 The Reservoir Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DJ
Received 20 Jan 2011Land off Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0PT
Received 25 Apr 2023Ferndale 82 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RQ
Received 28 Jun 2012Horseshoe Garage Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 18 May 2004Land adjacent 38 Delgate Avenue Weston
Received 26 Apr 2006Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 1991Little Marsh Lane Fleet
Received 20 Feb 2003Site off Arthurs Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE11 7LH
Received 17 Aug 1994192 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DQ
Received 22 Oct 1991Double Roof Farm High Road Moulton
Received 1 May 200358A SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 30 May 2025Field Works Common Road Moulton Seas End
Received 6 Jul 2006Broadway Crowland
Received 7 Mar 200611 Cambridge Gardens Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1995Cecil Francis Business Park Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XA
Received 20 May 202425 Reynolds Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PT
Received 15 Mar 2007The Vicarage 19 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 3 Jul 2013Adjacent Peverill 51 Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 21 Dec 2007Barrowby House Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TB
Received 21 Nov 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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