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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear Karhil 15 Low Road Spalding
Received 5 May 20058 & 9 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 20008 Mayfair Drive Little London Spalding
Received 9 Feb 1993Cowbit St Marys Endowed Church of England Primary School Barrier Bank Cowbit
Received 21 Mar 20052a Godfrey Avenue Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4HF
Received 12 Oct 202676 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 200511 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 1995Plot adjacent 193 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 3LJ
Received 9 Jun 2014'Colreta' Old Fen Dyke Sutton St James PE12 0HE
Received 16 Feb 2009McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AF
Received 17 Feb 2012Cates Cove Corner Eaugate Road Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SP
Received 4 Jan 2010Land west and north of Market Deeping Peterborough
Received 20 Jul 1992Land adjacent 83 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 14 Jul 2008SMITHFIELD SCOLDHALL LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BJ
Received 13 Dec 2021Land Adj. 38 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding
Received 10 Dec 2021Domestic Storage Buildings Chopdike Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 11 Jun 19973 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UA
Received 15 Aug 2005Baffens Way Cheal Road Gosberton Cheal
Received 18 Jul 2003Wygate Foundation Nursery School Spalding Primary School Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1PB
Received 8 Mar 2010Capricorn Cottage 88 Eastgate Fleet Spalding
Received 7 May 1992MARILYN OXCROFT BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TY
Received 21 Jun 2022Manor Stables 4 Cheal Road Gosberton Cheal Spalding, Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1993THE POPLARS FROSTLEY GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8SR
Received 29 Nov 2018New River Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 1992Records 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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