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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
PHOENIX PROTECTIVE SECURITY LTD 3a APEX COURT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UL
Received 29 Mar 201665 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincolnshire. PE11 4XX
Received 26 Feb 1998Fairfield House Thorpes Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RS
Received 5 Dec 2000Wygate Park Spalding Lincs PE11 1NY
Received 22 Jul 2016CARTERS PARK PARK ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING
Received 20 Dec 201617 The Parkway Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 2002Stellenbosch Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs PE12 9LQ
Received 23 Oct 2012Park Road Spalding
Received 23 May 200618 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Sept 1996MERMAID INN 2 GOSBERTON ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AB
Received 17 Oct 2022Keston House Mill Green Road Pinchbeck
Received 14 Sept 2006Silverdene Boston Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NR
Received 24 Apr 20191 ST MARYS CLOSE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JL
Received 27 Jul 2020DORLANDS 60 MOLE DROVE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PA
Received 22 Feb 201711 Stowgate Farm Deeping St James Peterborough Cambs PE6 8RW
Received 9 Sept 201523 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 1993'Meadow View', Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NE
Received 3 Jan 1997Monks Hall Gosberton
Received 10 Sept 2007Plots 22 - 53, (Phase 3) off Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 11 Jan 2000Station Road (west side) Gedney Hill
Received 17 Dec 200131 Delamore Way Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 0DX
Received 2 Jun 200559 High Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NJ
Received 13 Nov 2013The Old Rectory 8 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UD
Received 10 Oct 2006Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 1994Records 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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