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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Batemans Close Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BY
Received 25 Nov 199347 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3UB
Received 7 Aug 20235 Rainton Court Spalding Lincs PE12 6BD
Received 7 Aug 2000Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs PE12 6SH
Received 14 Sept 2018Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6EP
Received 23 Sept 2010Chespool House Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EU
Received 12 Sept 20133 THE CHANTRY SPALDING PE11 3LF
Received 8 Jun 2021Laburnum House Loosegate Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6JX
Received 14 Aug 2019Leesons Garage Ltd Railway Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 25 Feb 2005Land adj to 67 Boston Road Holbeach
Received 6 Oct 2004Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 16 Jun 202182 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 19931 Cherry Holt Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RJ
Received 14 Feb 2017Surfleet Seas End CP School Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 1996Holbeach W I Hall Park Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 29 Mar 2012154 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SF
Received 28 Jun 2007Glen Farm Station Road Surfleet
Received 10 Mar 200316 Chapelgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jun 2011TONAN COTTAGE ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8BX
Received 11 May 201669 High Street Gosberton
Received 2 May 2007The Environment Agency Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 15 Mar 200225 Station Street Spalding
Received 2 Mar 2006The Granary, High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Apr 1996Site to the South West of Spalding with Access from The Broadway to the North and B1172 to the South Spalding
Received 25 Apr 2014Records 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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