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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.
21,586 approved · 2,772 refused · 762 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 COUNTER DRAIN DROVE TONGUE END SPALDING PE11 3JJ
Received 28 Apr 202116 STOWGATE DEEPING ST JAMES PETERBOROUGH SPALDING PE6 8RW
Received 27 Jan 2016HOMELEIGH 19 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XN
Received 27 May 2015Adjacent 1 Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JX
Received 4 May 20074 Albion Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AZ
Received 19 Sept 2012Yew Tree House 1 Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4LX
Received 31 Jan 2019The Sycamores Farm Churchgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 23 Dec 2014Welland Hall London Road Spalding PE11 2TE
Received 13 Nov 201751 NORTHONS LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PZ
Received 31 Aug 2023'Chespool House' Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate
Received 9 Jan 2009Bank House 113 North Street Crowland Spalding PE6 0EG
Received 16 Dec 20252 East Elloe Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NB
Received 24 May 2010ASHWOOD NURSING HOME 43 SPALDING COMMON SPALDING PE11 3AU
Received 29 Apr 2025Land fronting Kirkgate Whaplode
Received 5 Jun 2006184 Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8LE
Received 4 Oct 20189 MILL GREEN ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PU
Received 8 Nov 2022Norfolk House Farm Gedney Marsh Gedney Drove End
Received 12 Dec 200641 APELDOORN GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1JT
Received 14 Aug 2017Former Chapel 132 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SF
Received 11 Feb 20131 First Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4LD
Received 10 Jul 2013Jensalbry House Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NG
Received 20 Oct 2005Land off Penny Hill Holbeach Spalding
Received 11 Feb 2015Dunns (Long Sutton) Ltd Phoenix Lodge Winters Lane Long Sutton PE12 9BE
Received 11 Nov 2013Saffron Indian Restaurant 7 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 9 Sept 2005Records 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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