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.
25,206 approved · 3,337 refused · 890 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Jun 2002 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Northolme North Road Gedney Hill
Received 9 Jan 2008THE HOLLIES BACK BANK WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TT
Received 19 Jun 2019Land off Mill Green Road Pinchbeck
Received 2 Sept 200824 WINSOVER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1EJ
Received 21 Sept 2023179 Rookery Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QG
Received 3 Apr 2008Sunrise Ravens Bank Holbeach Fen Sutton St James
Received 4 Apr 2003Bridge Farm Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 4 Jul 2002Scoldhall Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BJ
Received 23 Dec 2009SMITHFIELD SCOLDHALL LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BJ
Received 5 Jan 2021Cartref High Road Whaplode
Received 20 Jun 2002Nelsons Cottage Clough Road Gosberton Clough
Received 5 Apr 2007Land to the Southwest of the A151 & A16 Fulney Lane North Spalding
Received 23 Feb 2026Land adjacent: 72 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 8 Feb 2019HILLCREST BROADGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JF
Received 12 Oct 202013 FLEET STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING
Received 23 Sept 2021Stonegate Cowbit PE12 6AH
Received 23 Dec 2004Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 28 Jul 2016The Grange Coxs Drove Postland Crowland PE6 0ND
Received 3 Nov 200815 Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 4 Dec 2002Vicinity of the Spalding Tee-Point Surfleet Seas End Moulton Seas End Lincs
Received 13 Mar 2026180 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 31 Dec 2007BUCK COTTAGE MIDDLE MARSH ROAD MOULTON MARSH SPALDING PE12 6LL
Received 21 Mar 201724 Belchmire Lane Gosberton PE11 4HG
Received 30 Mar 2004CAWOOD HALL CAWOOD LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HB
Received 6 Feb 2015Records 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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