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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
37,482 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Aalsmeer Rise Spalding Lincs PE11 3JD
Received 27 Mar 1996Wingland Airfield Green Dyke Lane Gedney Dyke
Received 31 Oct 200514 Church Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 16 May 2011Adjacent/Rear: 78 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 10 Aug 1995Clough Road Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Aug 2000Gosberton Clough & Risegate County Primary School, Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 20 Oct 1997Land off Fleet Road Fleet Spalding
Received 20 Aug 2020Cawood Hall Apple Tree Farm Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HB
Received 19 Sept 2019Trojanwood Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3LW
Received 26 Mar 2019Money Bridge House Glenside North West Pinchbeck
Received 12 Sept 200511 Estella Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1HS
Received 16 May 2005LEADENHALL FARM LEADENHALL ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8HA
Received 6 Apr 2022Adjacent Smiths Farm Guanockgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 OLW
Received 16 Sept 2013Harribels Cottage Saltfleet Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4BD
Received 25 Jun 200924 Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 2004SEAS END HALL HALL LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LB
Received 3 Apr 2025Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TZ
Received 12 Mar 202687 89 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NA
Received 19 Oct 2006Old Leam Farm Lutton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 1994Memorial Hall Site Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 2001Tydd Gote Playing Field Station Road Tydd Gote
Received 19 Sept 2007Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Nov 200124 Hall Place Spalding PE11 1SG
Received 5 Jan 2011Farm Yard: Manor House Hall Gate Fleet Spalding PE12 8NG
Received 22 Nov 2018Records 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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