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.
21,281 approved · 2,716 refused · 748 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Jun 2005 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
COPPERBEECH 112 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TW
Received 12 Jun 201726-28 Commercial Road Spalding
Received 9 Sept 2005172 Boston Road (North) Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AG
Received 22 Mar 2012St Thomas Road and Welland Close Spalding
Received 9 Mar 2006Park House Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3ND
Received 3 Mar 2008Land off Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EQ
Received 7 Oct 2021Rear of 2 Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UF
Received 30 Nov 2023Plot 3 off Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8BX
Received 22 Sept 2011Castle Sports Complex Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2AJ
Received 5 Jun 2024142 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund
Received 16 Mar 2006Land rear 194 Park Road Spalding
Received 12 Sept 200682 Halmergate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EQ
Received 12 Sept 20111 High Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Feb 2006Gosberton Clough Methodist Church Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JS
Received 17 Feb 202542 Mansell Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1NE
Received 27 Nov 2017Land off Farnborough Close Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 5AF
Received 27 Jan 202634 Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UB
Received 26 Apr 2016Land off Banbury Close Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jul 201821 Rutland Gardens Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HR
Received 7 Mar 2019Rosedale Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PT
Received 16 May 2024Land at Gubboles Drove Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AU
Received 18 May 202359 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2BJ
Received 26 Nov 2008LAZY ACRE LITTLE DOG DROVE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING
Received 4 Nov 20192/4 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HG
Received 28 Apr 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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