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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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12 Carrington Drive Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jul 1996319 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DB
Received 16 Nov 2012River Nene - TF 482, 213 Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Feb 2001"The Red House" 97 High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 1 May 199835 MILL DROVE SOUTH COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6FS
Received 10 Apr 2018Hillgate Farm 61 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NP
Received 18 Dec 2001Green Dyke Farm Green Dyke Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech, Cambs PE13 5QX
Received 7 Oct 2003102 WOODLANDS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LZ
Received 7 Apr 2022Plot 4 The Business Park Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 21 Aug 200859 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NJ
Received 23 Jan 2017Spalding Post Office Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Dec 1995SERINGA MARSH ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JT
Received 14 Sept 2015Land rear of 5 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 May 2001Fleet Road/Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1997HOLLY LODGE RAVENS BANK WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SG
Received 19 Mar 2026THE HOMESTEAD WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PP
Received 8 Apr 2024Adjacent: 100 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6RP
Received 12 Nov 2018Land off St Annes Way Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jul 1993The Fraiser Room Gosberton Road Surfleet
Received 23 Feb 2006THE RAWLINS 11 BELLS DROVE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JG
Received 3 Apr 2018High Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Aug 2000Willowmere Maltings Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XA
Received 8 Nov 1991Former South View Primary School Albion Street Crowland PE6 0EB
Received 15 Oct 2019Site off Stephenson Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 6 Oct 2023Records 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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