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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
29,992 approved · 3,761 refused · 1,085 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot off Poplar Drive rear of 45 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 2009Freshcook Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8HF
Received 9 Oct 20145 St. Matthews Close Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7AY
Received 29 Sept 2014The Old Blacksmiths House Hurn Bank Holbeach Spalding PE12 8JG
Received 26 Sept 2013Horseshoe Lodge Birds Drove Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 12 Apr 1999Swift Barn Bourne Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NQ
Received 7 Sept 2011Spalding Golf Club Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jul 20027 BARBERS DROVE SOUTH CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EY
Received 11 Apr 2022Land off The Hayfields Wygate Park Spalding
Received 31 Mar 200511 River Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 200138 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding
Received 11 Mar 2011151 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 25 Jun 2001Fenland House 24 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QD
Received 17 Dec 2012Land at Spalding Power Station West Marsh Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Mar 2026Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 30 Jun 2006Adj. 47 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 1998TIN TOP COTTAGE PIT LANE GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PG
Received 8 Oct 20219 SPRING STREET SPALDING PE11 2XW
Received 17 Jan 20174 GOXHILL AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SZ
Received 4 Aug 202094 Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QQ
Received 26 Apr 2011Land off: Kenzie Drive Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SW
Received 17 Oct 2019Cuckoo Bridge, North Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Feb 1999Holbeach & Elloe Hospital Trust Boston Road North Holbeach Spalding PE12 8AQ
Received 30 Apr 2018Copelade Lodge Little Lane Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RU
Received 20 Jul 2018Records 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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