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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,359 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Plot 1, Poachers Hide High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 31 Jan 1997Fleet Hargate Playing Field Off Eastgate Gardens Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8NP
Received 23 Sept 2025St Thomas' Road/Water Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 2001Vine House Farm - Worths Farm - Porters Farm Deeping St Nicholas
Received 30 Dec 20037 Welby Gardens Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JY
Received 28 Apr 2003FIELD HOUSE RESIDENTIAL HOME OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LL
Received 28 Feb 2023Birchgrove Garden Centre Surfleet Road Pinchbeck
Received 26 Sept 2006FORMER TOWER BUNGALOW HOSPITAL DROVE LITTLE SUTTON SPALDING
Received 11 Apr 2016Rosella Low Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PW
Received 14 Sept 2015Heron Cottage Camping and Caravanning Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen
Received 30 Oct 2003SANJOMITI MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 12 Apr 2018The Hollies Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HL
Received 21 Jun 1999Birch Lodge Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1999Land South of Green Lane/East of Bacons Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XS
Received 6 Oct 202229 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XU
Received 1 Dec 2004Part of 18 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LW
Received 7 Feb 2013Broad Street Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Mar 20008 Market Place Spalding
Received 25 Jun 2007The Forge Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 0PD
Received 30 Jan 201925 Welland Terrace London Road Spalding
Received 6 Sept 20068 Beech Grove Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XQ
Received 14 May 200374 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 20039 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 15 Jul 201527 Delph Road Long Sutton
Received 24 Jun 2005Records 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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