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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37,482 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Off Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 24 Jul 199529 West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NT
Received 22 Jan 1997Land rear De Bora House Lowgate Fleet
Received 8 Feb 2005Sycamore Farm 6 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 26 Nov 2013Land off Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 20019 to 15 Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 201118 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 13 Jun 2008Ashleigh 45 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 18 Apr 2000Churchgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Sept 1997LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC 15 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SF
Received 25 Feb 2026Colona Nursery, Penny Hill Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 1998Edinburgh Walk West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NG
Received 1 Dec 1995Land adj. 9 Church Street Spalding
Received 21 Mar 2001Land South of Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 1 Feb 2000Hollytree Farm Broadgate Weston
Received 27 Jul 2005H K C West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2BJ
Received 22 May 2014Holland Villas 10 & 11 High Street Spalding PE11 1TW
Received 26 Oct 202219 Upper Welland Terrace London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 22 Feb 2010Woodhead Brothers Ltd Brunel Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YY
Received 5 May 201538 Spring Gardens Spalding PE11 2XL
Received 25 Sept 2024Former New Bridge Inn Site Slipe Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NF
Received 12 Apr 2021Low Lane Holbeach
Received 23 Feb 2005Land adjacent to Victory Hall Gedney Spalding
Received 19 Nov 1992Plot 1 Drove Road Shepeau Stow Spalding
Received 26 Feb 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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