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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
21,426 approved · 2,747 refused · 751 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Red Cow Cottage Queens Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SR
Received 31 Jan 201286A Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JU
Received 18 Jul 2013Pennyhill Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 16 Jun 20144 LOW GATE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AS
Received 19 Aug 2022Spalding High School Stonegate Spalding
Received 28 Nov 20064 GOXHILL AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SZ
Received 22 Jun 2023Adjacent 13A Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DE
Received 19 Oct 20103 HILLARY CLOSE SPALDING PE11 2GG
Received 15 May 2015Old Pack House Cheal Road Surfleet
Received 17 Sept 2007Charleen Drove Road Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove PE12 0TU
Received 18 Oct 2013Former car park to The Chequers Public House Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0AJ
Received 1 Oct 2024Land rear: 40 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 23 Jan 20191 THE BEECHES SPALDING PE11 1UE
Received 3 Oct 2014SMALL ACRES HITHER OLD GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JG
Received 7 Aug 201915a Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1SX
Received 14 Sept 20092 Willow Walk Spalding Lincs PE11 1UR
Received 14 Feb 2013Three Acres Stables Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HT
Received 23 Jan 2007Land adjacent 65 Town Drove Quadring Spalding PE11 4QL
Received 16 Nov 2015Unit 1, 11 The Crescent Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1AE
Received 21 Jul 202653 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JL
Received 19 Nov 20085 TWO PLANK LANE SPALDING PE11 3QT
Received 7 Feb 2023171 CHESBOULE LANE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4EU
Received 9 Mar 2015Gosberton House School Westhorpe Road Gosberton PE11 4EW
Received 15 Feb 2013The New Bridge Inn Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NF
Received 4 Oct 2011Records 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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