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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 9 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Corner House Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs PE11 3QN
Received 19 Aug 19994 Malting Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 23 Apr 20122 LIME GROVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NG
Received 17 Nov 2016Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NL
Received 4 Mar 2013Land adjacent Avenue Farm Avenue Farm Road off New Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9QF
Received 15 Jun 200730 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 1995Barholme Farm Quadring Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 28 Aug 199624 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JF
Received 14 May 2010Jekils Bank (Pt. OS 7645) Holbeach St Johns Nr. Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1998Woodhouse Farm Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 7 Jul 2008Shrublands Main Road Tydd Gote Wisbech
Received 1 Mar 2012139 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 19993 SAXONY WAY DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4YA
Received 25 Feb 201925 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HL
Received 19 Sept 2011Adjacent: Cherryholt Cottage Station Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JB
Received 8 Dec 2017Spalding Fire Station West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jan 1997THE HUNGRY HORSE 108 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2EL
Received 22 May 201911 Estella Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1HS
Received 3 May 2005Decoy Farm Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 OLX
Received 8 Sept 200940A BROAD LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PN
Received 4 Feb 2022The Limes 57 Main Road Quadring
Received 6 Aug 2008Landell House Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding, Lincolnshire PE12 6LW
Received 3 Mar 2000193 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 3LJ
Received 29 Mar 2016LYNTON PILLARS MAIN ROAD WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TP
Received 6 Apr 2023Records 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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