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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
37,435 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
PROCTOR BROS (WINGLAND) LTD LIGHTHOUSE FARM EAST BANK SUTTON BRIDGE PE12 9YT
Received 15 Oct 2014Goose House Cold Hurn Lane Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding PE11 4LH
Received 13 Dec 2021Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1992The Mansion House High Street Holbeach
Received 7 Apr 200617 HIGH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DU
Received 20 May 2015Ashwood Nursing Home Spalding Common Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jun 2000The Flaxmill Flaxmill Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YP
Received 1 Oct 20251 SHERWOOD DRIVE SPALDING PE11 1QW
Received 28 Feb 2024The Hide Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QH
Received 14 Jan 202517 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4PU
Received 16 Jul 2015Hospital Farm Littleworth Drive Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1994First Floor Premises 6A Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 199112 Park Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DJ
Received 9 Nov 2011Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AS
Received 21 Jun 202132 Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 27 Sept 2001Land East of Baulkins Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JU
Received 31 Mar 2023Wishing Well House Adj. Mill Cottage Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 2001Rear Pro-Bodies Health Fitness 23 High Street Spalding
Received 24 Nov 200880 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4ET
Received 15 Aug 2023Building Adjacent to Cardwell House Dawsmere Road Dawsmere Spalding PE12 9NQ
Received 23 Feb 2017Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Sept 2001Land adj. to residential development Surfleet Road, Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincs
Received 24 Mar 199321 Westlode Street Spalding
Received 31 Mar 20041 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1NX
Received 9 Jul 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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