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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.
26,969 approved · 3,532 refused · 950 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HILLS FARM GOSBERTON BANK GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PB
Received 21 Aug 2019Adjacent to 5 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 20 Jul 201114 Church Street Holbeach PE12 7LL
Received 21 Apr 200911 Exeter Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2DY
Received 13 Nov 2008Crowtree Farm Coxs Drove Postland Crowland PE6 0NE
Received 8 May 2003Barrington House 32 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LB
Received 28 Dec 2012THE OLD VICARAGE 53 CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JW
Received 22 Aug 2025Off Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RT
Received 19 Oct 2018Rear of 1 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JW
Received 27 Mar 2020Agricultural Field off Newlands Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DT
Received 5 Mar 2019Plot 1 The Sidings Moulton
Received 11 Nov 2002KFC, Lincs Gateway Business Park 8 Goodison Road Spalding PE12 6FY
Received 27 Nov 2025St Marys Church Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 25 May 201657 Claudette Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 1HU
Received 6 Jul 2010Gosberton House Academy 11 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EW
Received 28 Nov 2023Lilac House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XR
Received 10 Nov 2011Delamore House Park Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs. PE12 9DJ
Received 16 Dec 2002Site to South West of Spalding with access from Broadway to the North & B1172 to the South Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2022FREDORE HOLBEACH DROVE GATE HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0PX
Received 17 Sept 2021High Street Donington
Received 30 Oct 2003Rear of 32 Fishpond Lane Holbeach
Received 27 Jun 2002Friskney House Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 28 Jan 20043 GREEN LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LT
Received 12 May 2015Rear: Derene Damgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QL
Received 18 Apr 2017Records 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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