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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
29,973 approved · 3,759 refused · 1,083 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stukeley Gardens Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Oct 200010 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6NL
Received 16 Jul 202470 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 20053 CROWN DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2HT
Received 30 Mar 2023Woodville House 40 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AG
Received 15 Jan 2024Ebanezer House Cheal Road Gosberton Cheal
Received 9 Jul 2007Bakers Yard Gosberton PE11 4EQ
Received 31 Aug 20072 Crown Cottage Oxcroft Bank Moulton Chapel, Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0XT
Received 11 Oct 2000Cley Hall High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TX
Received 5 Jul 2012Plot at Middle Road Whaplode
Received 2 Jun 2000Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AU
Received 25 Oct 20058 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UA
Received 11 Dec 2024Adjacent 3 Ambury Gardens Crowland PE6 0ET
Received 18 Jun 2007Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 201234 BAULKINS DROVE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JX
Received 27 Jan 2021Shamu Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs PE12 9LQ
Received 23 Nov 2001Gosberton Food Park Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 199829 Thistle Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1HJ
Received 2 Feb 200938 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING
Received 5 Nov 202198 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 20038 AVIGNON ROAD SPALDING PE11 1HW
Received 18 Nov 202114 South Street Crowland PE6 0AJ
Received 27 Jun 2006School Lane and Ropers Gate Lutton
Received 12 Jan 2009Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Haverfield Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XP
Received 19 Jun 2009Records 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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