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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
37,479 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Springfields Tavern Unit 43 Camel Gate Spalding PE12 6EU
Received 29 May 2012MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 19 Nov 2021Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 2 Oct 2023Spalding Drove, Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Mar 1998Former Fire Station Double Street Spalding
Received 5 Jun 2006TILT COTTAGE 106 EAUGATE ROAD MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0XJ
Received 28 Mar 2014Plot 22 off Lowgate Puddingpoke Lane Lutton
Received 12 Jan 2007Wragg Marsh Off-Take Carrington Road Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 1997128 Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XJ
Received 22 Oct 2010Holland Bridge Farm Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Dec 1993Former White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding PE11 1SU
Received 10 Aug 201141 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Feb 200372 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs, PE11 4NJ
Received 31 Jan 1994110 Spalding Common Spalding Lincs PE11 3AU
Received 1 Oct 2008Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HG
Received 29 Aug 2000Adj. Five Bells Public House Common Way Tydd St Mary Spalding
Received 9 Feb 1998145 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 3LJ
Received 24 Feb 2023Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding
Received 2 Feb 2004114 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TW
Received 1 Sept 2015SPALDING HORTICULTURAL CAMEL GATE SPALDING PE12 6ES
Received 10 Oct 2018Manor Farm, Fen Road (Land south of Hall Gate) Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8QA
Received 5 Apr 20176 MILL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TL
Received 24 May 2021Winchester Growers Ltd Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 201019 Back Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LN
Received 1 Sept 1994Records 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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