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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 31 Jan 2007Land Between 31 and 35 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EN
Received 4 Aug 201437 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate
Received 20 Apr 200750 WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BH
Received 19 Apr 2018HARROX HOUSE 3 HIGH STREET MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QB
Received 29 Oct 201825 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1PQ
Received 5 Mar 199977 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DQ
Received 13 Apr 201028 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 15 Apr 2008Saltfleet Lane Surfleet
Received 18 Sept 2001Spalding Services And Social Club Ltd 24 High Street Spalding PE11 1TX
Received 11 Jul 20241-3 Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Aug 20002 Link Way Spalding Lincs PE11 2ED
Received 1 Mar 2011Land adj 17 Trafalgar Square Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9HB
Received 22 Feb 2023Land off Pennygate Spalding
Received 19 Jun 2003'Cramer House' 2-4 High Street Moulton PE12 6NL
Received 10 Mar 2009Plots 8-13 Phase 4 Mulberry Way Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Feb 200010 Clough Road Holbeach Clough Spalding PE12 8BW
Received 19 Aug 2015Rear of War Memorial Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 18 Jul 2023The Bungalow, Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EL
Received 3 Oct 1996TEA ROSE COTTAGE MAIN ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PD
Received 25 Feb 2025Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 6 May 2025Anfield Barns Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 6 Jun 1997Holmlea Mill Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RT
Received 12 Nov 2024Land North of Nightingale Way Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RG
Received 2 Oct 2020Records 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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