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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Oldham Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XZ
Received 16 Jan 200930 OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 26 Jul 2022The Bungalow Hallgate Road Sutton St Edmund
Received 20 Aug 2001Kirkover 18 Hillgate Gedney Hill
Received 18 Apr 2002Carmell 11 Tydd Low Road Long Sutton
Received 18 Sept 2002Churchgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Apr 199977 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RA
Received 15 Aug 2012EMMANUEL COTTAGE NORTH DROVE SPALDING PE11 3JF
Received 3 Sept 202111A Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 2005The Memorial Park Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SA
Received 9 Nov 2017Field Works Common Road Moulton Seas End
Received 24 Apr 2006Pawlett Manor Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 25 Aug 2005WEST END LODGE 88 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RB
Received 10 Apr 2024'Limehurst', 41 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1997Adj 3 Cluttons Close Crowland PE6 0HD
Received 29 Aug 2002The Bungalow Cranesgate North Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SR
Received 9 May 202513 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 200323 Pennyfield Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RG
Received 4 Feb 2005The Parish of Surfleet
Received 16 Apr 200426 HELMSLEY WAY SPALDING PE12 6BG
Received 28 Mar 2018Rear of The Hollies 30 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 27 Sept 2022Wimberley Hall Farm Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HR
Received 23 Nov 2009Site to the rear of 5 The Wentworths Long Sutton SPALDING PE12 9RT
Received 5 Feb 2018Linden House Old Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 10 Apr 2003Records 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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