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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
37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 All Saints Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7QF
Received 7 Oct 2002GREENCELL HOLLY LODGE WEST MARSH ROAD PINCHBECK PE11 3UW
Received 16 Mar 2015Tollbar House Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 3 May 2002Land off King Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Feb 2000HOME-LEA DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NA
Received 1 May 201512 BOWGATE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4ND
Received 18 Feb 2021Mallard House Farm Mallard Hurn Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XF
Received 17 Feb 2006Plots 11 12 24 25 35 and 36 Hallgate Holbeach
Received 4 Jul 2006Former Tyre Depot Swan Street Spalding
Received 15 Sept 2003SURFLEET PRIMARY SCHOOL 76 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 16 Oct 2025Adjacent 19 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 13 Jul 201615 Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QE
Received 21 May 20077 Goldcrest Road (Plot 47) Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0FE
Received 20 Apr 201731 Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs PE12 8BL
Received 15 Jul 200516 STENNETT AVENUE SPALDING PE11 3AX
Received 31 Mar 202510 TASMAN CLOSE SPALDING PE11 2GH
Received 18 May 2016Adjacent 15 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach
Received 17 May 2004Stephenson Avenue South Holland Enterprise Park Pinchbeck
Received 5 Oct 2006Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding
Received 17 Aug 2022Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 199834-36 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 1997Red House Farm Hurdletree Bank Holbeach
Received 29 Mar 2007Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Aug 199321 Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UD
Received 3 May 2002Records 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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