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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
DELVA HOUSE 52 WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BH
Received 18 Feb 2020The Punchbowl Public House New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Feb 1999Feldbinder A17 Bridge Road Roundabout Sutton Bridge
Received 27 Dec 2006Riseholme Lodge Charters Lane Long Sutton PE12 9JX
Received 31 Jul 20024 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 2005Springfield Gardens Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1994Deeping St Nicholas Wind Cluster Vine House Farm Deeping St Nicholas
Received 28 Jan 2004Crossways 2 Salem Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NQ
Received 20 Apr 202642-44 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DA
Received 18 Nov 20209 River Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3AA
Received 5 Apr 2001THE GRANGE NORTHGATE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3SE
Received 10 Oct 202236 Cathedral Drive Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2008Rear: Tweenus 17 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TD
Received 20 Jul 2016FORMER BAPTIST CHURCH HILLGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING
Received 25 Aug 2016Land between: 1 & 1A Northorpe Road Donington Spalding PE11 4XU
Received 9 Sept 201678 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PH
Received 16 Dec 200214a WREN CLOSE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING
Received 2 Nov 2016FORMER THE COTTAGE MILL BANK HOLBEACH SPALDING
Received 20 Jun 2017Front garden of 51 High Street Gosberton PE11 4NW
Received 15 Apr 2014Holbeach Warehouse Park Road Holbeach
Received 25 Jan 2006Adj Domino Lowgate Lutton
Received 11 Nov 2004SILENI TOWN DAM LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TR
Received 18 Aug 20175 BULL ROW OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 22 Sept 2014Orchard Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding, Lincs
Received 29 Mar 1993Records 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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