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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Between the 'Bungalow' & 'Westwood' Middle Road Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Sept 1999Duke Of York 106 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EY
Received 14 Sept 2021Sessions House & Former Police Station & 33 The Crescent Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1994ETNA HOUSE LOWGATE ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LN
Received 21 May 2019Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 20 Jan 1992Poachers Gate Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jun 1994Princes Street & Royal Close Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jan 1997Adjacent 3 Chapel Street Holbeach
Received 23 May 200811 Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 1997Land rear 92 St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 7 Feb 2005Porters Workshop off Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 8 Sept 2008Pear Tree Farm St James Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BA
Received 26 Oct 2018Former: Gosberton Medical Centre Low Gate Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NL
Received 21 Sept 2017Albert Street Holbeach
Received 15 Jan 2008Bourne Road/Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 May 1995Adj. Greetings Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 4 Nov 2020101 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1997Spar, 7 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 17 May 2000Barns at Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 1996Spalding High School for Girls Stonegate Spalding
Received 18 May 2006Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 1996First Floor 1-2 Station Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1EF
Received 28 Sept 2017Nursery Fresh Plants Keston Nurseries Mill Green Road Pinchbeck
Received 25 Oct 2007TYDD ST MARY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL CHURCH WAY TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5QY
Received 23 Aug 2021Records 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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