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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Park Farm Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 1996Land at Double Roof Farm Off High Road A151 Moulton Spalding PE12 6NT
Received 21 Sept 2023Henrys 19 Market Place Long Sutton
Received 19 Sept 200354 MOULTON CHAPEL ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XD
Received 6 Mar 2024FLAT 2 THE MONOGRAMS PINSTOCK LANE GEDNEY PE12 0BT
Received 24 Jun 2016THE POPLARS HIGH ROAD WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JU
Received 22 Jan 202141 Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Mar 2006Beech House 20 Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 18 Feb 2025The Mansion House 45 High Street Holbeach
Received 6 Apr 200697 Battlefields Lane South Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PG
Received 3 Aug 2007The Cottage Hallgate Fleet
Received 15 Feb 200224 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 16 Oct 2020Church Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Nov 199611 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1DQ
Received 2 Oct 2009Land adjacent 21 Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 25 Sept 2008Land south east off Littleworth Drove Lucks Bridge Spalding PE11 3AY
Received 21 Feb 20191 Drawdyke Tydd St Mary
Received 30 Mar 2007Greenroof Main Road Whaplode Spalding, Lincs
Received 12 Mar 199232 Lincoln Avenue Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PJ
Received 18 Mar 2005The Willows Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 16 Feb 20042 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 27 Feb 2007CAPRICORN COTTAGE RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME 88A EAST GATE FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8ND
Received 16 Jul 202042 ROEBURN WAY SPALDING PE11 3ZW
Received 30 Apr 2015PEAR TREE COTTAGE CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JN
Received 28 Mar 2018Records 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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