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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
36,892 approved · 4,490 refused · 1,350 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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The Hollies Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 20 Sept 2013Land off Lowgate Gosberton
Received 13 Sept 20073 KIRBY COURT SPALDING PE12 6BB
Received 27 Mar 2017Plot 2, Bramble Grange Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jun 1992THE MEADOWS WHALE DROVE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 0UB
Received 11 Feb 2025Fraiser Room Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 31 Jul 2012Churchills, Minerva House 49 West Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BN
Received 17 Mar 2026The Carters Arms 97 High Road Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6RA
Received 10 Mar 2004Brambley Hedge Sarah Gate Quadring Spalding PE11 4QE
Received 9 Dec 2013Norfolk House Farm Gedney Marsh Gedney Drove End
Received 26 Jun 200710 - 11 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SR
Received 2 Apr 20244 Edgefield Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6RQ
Received 10 Oct 2006IRBY VILLA MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RT
Received 18 Apr 202328 HIGHSTOCK LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0QG
Received 25 Feb 202245A Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JN
Received 25 Apr 20021 Drawdyke Tydd St Mary
Received 7 Jun 2007Church Gate & Stone Gate, Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0NW
Received 4 Sept 19899 Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TP
Received 3 Oct 2013Land north of 49 Withington Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SU
Received 22 Sept 2015Land off & to north of Monks House Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Nov 1998Land at Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 19986 Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QD
Received 11 Nov 20251 Sunningdale Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2SP
Received 30 Jan 2017Plot 2 land rear of 15 Mill Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TL
Received 31 Aug 2012Records 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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