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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Beech Lodge Frogs Abbeygate Holbeach St Johns
Received 8 Dec 20064 CHURCH STREET SPALDING PE11 2PB
Received 17 May 201877 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 19 Dec 200613 Coronation Avenue Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EP
Received 8 Aug 2016White Hart Development Market Place Spalding PE11 1SU
Received 7 Aug 2017Shoebridge Engineering Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EH
Received 10 Nov 2014Holme House Quadring Road Gosberton
Received 15 Oct 20011 HALL GARDENS PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3GR
Received 3 Nov 2022Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1993Rear of 57 and 59 Rotten Row Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RQ
Received 21 May 2015Irby Hall Millgate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs PE12 6RT
Received 1 Mar 1999Welland Saw Mills Little London Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2UJ
Received 26 Jul 20001/3 Bond Street Court Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 1997Land off: Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 2016Wignal's Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 1993Land East of Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 26 Mar 2026Land off Hallgate & Fen Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 24 Nov 2023Mayfield Rest Home, Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jun 2000The Bungalow Boston Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NR
Received 1 Nov 201251 West Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EE
Received 18 Feb 200331 KILN DRIVE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5RA
Received 12 Apr 201924 Church Street Holbeach
Received 6 Oct 2006Market Place Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4ST
Received 9 Jan 202348 CROSS STREET SPALDING PE11 2YG
Received 1 Nov 2017Records 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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