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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TL
Received 4 Mar 2019Rossclare Washway Road Holbeach
Received 7 Aug 2008Harrington Hall Nursery Little Marsh Lane Fleet
Received 25 Apr 2002Land Off Station Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 15 Jan 202151 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 11 May 199520 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LB
Received 26 Jul 2013Building to rear Sergis Good Food Store 10 and 11 Francis Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1AT
Received 14 Aug 200954 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7ED
Received 10 Jan 20141 Willows Close Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QR
Received 2 Dec 1998Sunlight 1-2 Market Place Donington
Received 18 Jun 2007Green Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BZ
Received 21 Jun 20113 CARRINGTON ROAD SPALDING PE11 1LY
Received 8 Oct 2018Marston's Public House Gateway Spalding Lincs PE12 6AD
Received 14 May 201842 Mill Lane Donington Spalding
Received 4 Sept 1992Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9EG
Received 12 Dec 2024Raf Holbeach - Bombing Range Durhams Road Gedney Dawsmere Spalding PE12 9NJ
Received 31 Mar 202528A BATTLEFIELDS LANE SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PQ
Received 24 Nov 201720 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Oct 199196 Cheal Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 1998Monks House Bourne Road Spalding PE11 3LH
Received 10 Mar 2025Plots 1 & 2, Roman Bank Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jan 199210 Henson Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2FW
Received 18 Nov 2002WALTONS FARM FARMHOUSE LANGARY GATE ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0RU
Received 23 Feb 2024Site Adj. Silverdene Boston Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NR
Received 9 Mar 2022Records 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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