Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
18,538 approved · 2,137 refused · 614 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Mar 2007 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cattle Shed High Fen Farm Fourth Drove Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4JZ
Received 23 May 2016Land East of Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 19 Mar 2024W A Pearce & Sons 11 Stowgate Farm Deeping St James Peterborough PE6 8RW
Received 19 Jun 2015Willow Tea Rooms Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8LL
Received 2 Dec 2010Westfield Farm West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QR
Received 13 Jul 2012Pawlett Manor Mole Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PA
Received 23 Jun 2010HARTLEY HOUSE EASTERN ROAD HOLBEACH ST MATTHEWS SPALDING PE12 8EW
Received 20 Jun 201683 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 11 Apr 20255 LOW GATE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AS
Received 17 Nov 202342 Cley Hall Drive Spalding
Received 19 Sept 2007Sandygate Farmhouse Sandygate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HG
Received 21 Nov 2012Adj. 103 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QA
Received 23 Oct 201784 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LF
Received 3 Dec 202598 High Street Gosberton
Received 22 Dec 200811 A, B & C Church Street (Formerly 11 Church Street) Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 16 Jun 2025Belle Vue Garage Station Road Holbeach
Received 16 Jul 2008Double Roof Farm High Road Moulton Spalding
Received 15 Nov 201344 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TD
Received 17 Sept 2014Goose Chase Common Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LF
Received 4 Aug 2011Land North of Gatehouse 86 Langhole Drove Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SS
Received 19 Apr 2022JAYS FARM 180 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NU
Received 10 Sept 2015North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NS
Received 11 Jun 2010Onslow Farm Onslow Lane Gedney Drove End PE12 9NP
Received 17 Feb 2010Rear: 77 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DN
Received 20 Mar 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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