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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Farm Cottage Cheal Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4JG
Received 28 Oct 2009Hallgate Fleet
Received 4 Nov 2003Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Dec 1994Unit 1, Fleet Industrial Estate Holbeach Spalding
Received 30 Jan 1997Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow
Received 25 Oct 200473 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BX
Received 9 Mar 2011Pinchbeck Library Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 16 Jun 2017Westview Windmill Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4ES
Received 12 Mar 2010The Stables Goochgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HF
Received 29 Sept 2023Plot 2, Long Lane Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 1995LAMBERTS TRANSPORT 65 CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JW
Received 7 Nov 2016Site rear: 10 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6NL
Received 25 Oct 201744 CLEY HALL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2EB
Received 18 Jan 2024"Victory House" 24 Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1992Chapelgate and Kingsgate Gedney
Received 4 Feb 2004Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding
Received 26 Apr 1993Eastern Spice 16 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 21 Feb 2007Clay Lake Spalding PE12 6BL
Received 5 Dec 2024Monmouth House Farm Monmouth Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9LH
Received 18 Oct 2012SILENI TOWN DAM LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TR
Received 10 Apr 201576 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QN
Received 26 Mar 200368A TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QN
Received 25 Oct 2018Bars Bridge Bourne Road West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 25 Jun 2001Saltfleet Lane Surfleet
Received 14 Jan 2002Records 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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