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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
37,481 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Bell Inn 83 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 19933 Shivean Gate Moulton Spalding PE12 6PL
Received 14 Dec 2012Tamarisk Cobgate Whaplode
Received 8 Nov 200443 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 2005"Dad'll Have A Grumble" 6 Victoria Street Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 1998Plot adj Glendale Cowpers Gate Long Sutton
Received 6 Feb 2003180 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NX
Received 11 Dec 2009St John The Baptist CE Primary School Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 21 May 2007off Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 5 Apr 2019Ladypud Lodge Lowgate Fleet
Received 16 Apr 200734 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 2004South: 41 Coronation Avenue Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QT
Received 8 May 2018Glenside Cottage Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NW
Received 8 Apr 20101A Crosslands Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TU
Received 24 Apr 2009Brunel Road off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 29 Jan 200844 and 44A High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7ED
Received 11 Nov 201035 Moons Green Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 2001Land to rear of 11-13 North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EG
Received 25 Mar 2010Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 1994Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 12 Nov 2002BRANDONS POULTRY DEEPING FARM MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS PE11 3BW
Received 20 Dec 2016Holly House Main Road Weston
Received 22 Aug 200622 Crown Drive Spalding PE11 2HU
Received 9 Jan 2017Barrington Farmhouse Fen Road Holbeach
Received 6 Aug 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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