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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent: 143 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 18 Apr 2016Hallgate Fleet
Received 15 Jul 2004Adjacent Northolme North Road Gedney Hill
Received 13 Mar 20061 Highbury Cottage Hundred Fen Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4LF
Received 20 Aug 2001Coney Garth Cottage Roman Bank Holbeach Hurn Spalding
Received 4 Mar 1999Birds Drove Surfleet
Received 19 Jan 2004Plot adj. 108 St Thomas's Rd., Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 1992Adj Broadview Stonegate Gedney
Received 12 Sept 2003Wards Farm, Deeping High Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 ODB
Received 10 Jul 1995Land Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 22 Jan 199236 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TD
Received 21 Oct 2021Spalding Energy Project West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 2BB
Received 9 Mar 2021Bank Farm, North Ing Drove Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Feb 1999WHITE COTTAGE 214 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TJ
Received 7 Mar 201815 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jan 1992Adjacent Baytree House Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8ED
Received 7 Sept 201142 WRIGHTS LANE SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RH
Received 22 Apr 2014High Street/Church Street Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jun 1995Former Finnings Site Westlode Street Spalding
Received 20 Jan 2006The Yews Westgate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XW
Received 4 Jun 2013Land to rear 146 and 142 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 23 May 2005Land rear: 1 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding
Received 11 Jul 2016Chapelgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jun 1994RIVETT LANGHOLE DROVE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XP
Received 1 May 2014Records 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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