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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
off Hallgate Holbeach
Received 8 Sept 200662 NEW ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RQ
Received 18 Jun 2015The Red House 97 High Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NA
Received 7 Jan 201826 Guanockgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs PE12 0LU
Received 12 May 2004Site adjacent: THE BEECHES HORSESHOE ROAD SPALDING PE11 3JA
Received 26 Aug 20208/9 Sheep Market and 1A Abbey Path Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Mar 2020Kellet Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 200147A Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 15 May 2000Plots 2-6 Stonegate Gedney Spalding
Received 18 Dec 1998Off Poplar Drive rear 45 High Street Gosberton PE11 4NM
Received 11 Aug 2008Decoy Farm Cuckoo Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Oct 1995Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jun 199720 West End Holbeach
Received 16 Dec 2005Fenlands Clarks Hill Gedney
Received 2 Oct 2008Bar Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3HA
Received 19 Jan 2000Land adjacent: 78 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EY
Received 6 Jul 2018Parish of Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 1995Land adjacent to Jacksons Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3AB
Received 11 Nov 20158 Grocock Close Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LZ
Received 7 Feb 200728 ST ANDREWS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2SJ
Received 7 Sept 202331 Brayfields Pinchbeck SPALDING PE11 3YT
Received 2 Oct 201734-36 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 1997Former Glen Farrow Premises Land off Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UE
Received 13 Dec 20173 Sir Issac Newton Close Holbeach
Received 25 May 2007Records 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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