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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Swale Bank Farmhouse Swale Bank Gosberton Spalding
Received 3 Feb 199861 Halmergate Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 199215 London Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2TA
Received 22 May 202374 Edinburgh Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2RT
Received 21 Jun 2001Land adjacent: 170 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1HQ
Received 8 Nov 2017Land at Magellan Way Spalding
Received 6 Oct 2005Land off Waterside Gardens Fishpond Lane Holbeach Lincs
Received 26 Jul 2000Hocklesgate Fleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Jun 199816 East Cobgate Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1993MILLFIELD NURSERIES MILL LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PW
Received 20 Feb 20185 Alexandra Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2QA
Received 10 Jun 200216 Fleet Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LA
Received 18 Jul 2016Land to the west of Coalbeach Lane South Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BL
Received 11 Mar 202030 Washdyke Lane Donington Spalding Lincs, PE11 4SL
Received 29 Apr 1993Holly Lodge West Marsh Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UW
Received 8 Mar 2019West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Dec 2004Church Walk Surgery 3 Church Walk Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RD
Received 8 Dec 2016Percheron Lodge Gull House Farm Deeping High Bank Spalding
Received 21 Dec 201023 Station Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BP
Received 26 Apr 2013The Limes Adjacent 46 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LP
Received 27 Aug 2009Tretton Manor Farm Tydd St Giles Wisbech Cambs
Received 14 May 199678 SURFLEET ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XY
Received 22 Sept 2021Park Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BD
Received 1 Jul 2011The Chestnuts Low Road Spalding
Received 28 Mar 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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