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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land East of Forest Way Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Jul 2026Adjacent Field View Chapelgate Sutton St James
Received 12 Sept 2007Land off Willow Walk Spalding
Received 5 Aug 202062 Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Oct 2002Adj. to 25 Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HS
Received 22 Dec 2016Land off Bourne Road Pode Hole
Received 27 Feb 2002Spalding Railway Station Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EA
Received 19 Apr 2010Park House Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3ND
Received 15 Mar 200718 FISHPOND LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DE
Received 16 Dec 201521 THE CHASE CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LN
Received 15 May 2015Off Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Apr 1998Land adjacent 1 Bowditch Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Feb 1994Rear of 7 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 26 Aug 2022The Old Filling Station Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherines Spalding, Lincs
Received 23 Dec 1992Land at Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6HU
Received 14 Oct 2015Rear of 175 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 2UN
Received 22 Jul 2022Land off Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 2011Plot 25 Parkinsons Land Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 6 Feb 1992TOLL BAR HOUSE MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3BN
Received 18 Mar 20243 HARVEST MEWS DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3UJ
Received 11 May 2016Red House Broad Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JS
Received 29 Apr 2024Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 20 Feb 2003McBrides Nurseries Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 22 Feb 2005Irby House Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RT
Received 13 Feb 2026Records 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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