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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Grove Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Sept 1996Tamarisk Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jan 1999Land west of Woolram Wygate (Wygate Park - Phase 5) Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jan 1996The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 26 Apr 2002Land Adj & Surrounding 45 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AG
Received 18 Dec 202012 WINDSOR DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2RP
Received 18 May 2017Bardaeu Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0SD
Received 13 Sept 2002Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Aug 1997Yard & Premises at Chapel Gate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 19945 Church Street Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 2004Rose-Hip Cottage 86 Church Street Pinchbeck PE11 3YA
Received 28 Oct 2002Holland Market Swan Street Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 27 Aug 1996Crossing Keepers Cottage Dog Drove South Whaplode Drove
Received 30 Oct 20066 Cobgate Close Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6SX
Received 7 Nov 2003(Former White Lion) Station Road Tydd Gote Lincs
Received 5 Feb 1992Sluice Cottage Foul Anchor Tydd Wisbech Cambs PE13 5RF
Received 12 Apr 2005Silverdrive Salem Street Gosberton
Received 12 May 20055 Decoy Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3JS
Received 22 Mar 1995Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 26 Jan 200029 Welland Terrace Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jul 1995Sandpit Nurseries, Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Sept 1996Land North of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 19 Aug 2021Between Wisteria House and Alpine West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 15 May 1992FORMER WELLAND HOSPITAL ROMAN BANK SPALDING
Received 14 Sept 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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