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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 3, Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1994The Rookery 171 Rookery Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QG
Received 20 Feb 2025Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1998Part of Holland House High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Nov 1996Sutton Bridge Churchyard Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 28 Feb 2001Rear of Westerley Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 12 Jul 2022Adj Old School Buildings Main Road Tydd Gote Wisbech
Received 21 Mar 2013(Plot 4) land south of 10 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NL
Received 16 Oct 2017Adjacent: 70 London Road Little London Spalding
Received 30 Nov 199528 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4EZ
Received 9 Jun 1992Adj Bowfield Eaugate Road Moulton Eaugate
Received 18 Apr 2002Land adjacent Medway House Birds Drove Surfleet
Received 19 Oct 200641 SAXON CLOSE SPALDING PE12 6AY
Received 24 Oct 2025Broadgate (Pt OS No. 5411) Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 1998Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 2 May 2006Askrigg 74 Stone Gate Cowbit PE12 6AH
Received 20 Jul 202073 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 10 Apr 2007HOLMEWOOD PENNY HILL ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8DN
Received 14 Jan 2022Former Finnings Site Westlode Street Spalding
Received 4 Dec 2006North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 27 Aug 1996132 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 10 May 1993285 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 2001Land off old A17 Saracens Head
Received 1 May 200284 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NA
Received 25 Jul 2008Records 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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