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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.
21,597 approved · 2,775 refused · 762 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to east of Sutton Bridge and north west of Walpole St Peter Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 20131 ORCHARD HOUSE ORCHARD PARK HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BX
Received 6 Feb 201887 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit PE12 0XD
Received 20 Dec 2021GEORGE BARNSDALE AND SONS LTD 24 - 26 HIGH STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TA
Received 21 Mar 2016Land at 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 2010PHOENIX PROTECTIVE SECURITY LTD 3a APEX COURT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UL
Received 12 Jul 20187 Cornflower Close Spalding PE11 3BH
Received 21 Sept 201626 HATT CLOSE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PY
Received 26 Aug 2014Land adj to 25 Bowditch Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2QF
Received 26 Feb 2013Harribels Cottage Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BD
Received 6 Jan 2010Lowlands Cottage Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JR
Received 18 Oct 2011Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 28 Jun 20188 Harrox Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PR
Received 14 Nov 2012OAK LODGE CHEAL ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JQ
Received 7 Nov 2017Millfield Nursery Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AU
Received 25 Nov 2020The Vicarage Church Walk Holbeach PE12 7DT
Received 20 Sept 2012LEAMLANDS FARM LEAMLANDS LANE LUTTON MARSH SPALDING PE12 9NS
Received 8 Apr 202233 RED LION STREET SPALDING PE11 1SX
Received 14 Nov 2022Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 2005APPLE TREE FARM CAWOOD HALL CAWOOD LANE GOSBERTON PE11 4HB
Received 10 May 2018SPECS FOR LESS 17 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SA
Received 17 Jul 2015SMALL ACRES HITHER OLD GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JG
Received 1 Jul 201422 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 15 Sept 2021Elm Tree Grange Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AS
Received 27 Jan 2022Records 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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