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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Winchester Growers Ltd Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 26 May 2006Infotel House Boston Road Gosberton
Received 10 Jul 20024 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Nov 19934 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2XY
Received 7 Feb 2013The Firs Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jan 1999Red Lion Quarter Crackpool Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 1WD
Received 23 Mar 2022Grange Farm Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jun 1996J O SIMS LTD PUDDING LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TJ
Received 16 Nov 2023Walnut Cottage Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Apr 199425 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Nov 2002Garage adjacent: 1 Knipe Avenue Spalding PE11 2YE
Received 6 Feb 2017Land west Woolram Wygate Wygate Park Spalding
Received 19 Oct 2007Eardley Grange Farm Wrights Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AB
Received 20 Apr 1994Rear of 44/46 Daniels Gate Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Sept 1998Xlendi 2A Park Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DJ
Received 10 Oct 20191 to 6 Unity Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9FF
Received 20 Jul 2009Old Crown Farm Carrington Road Moulton Seas End
Received 15 Nov 2007Parish of Fleet Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 27 Sept 2000POLLEN HOUSE 39 COALBEACH LANE SOUTH SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BL
Received 3 Sept 2026Land Adjacent: 61 BOWGATE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4LL
Received 16 Jan 2020Spalding Horticultural Premises Camel Gate Spalding
Received 26 Mar 20045-9 Wygate Park Spalding
Received 15 Aug 200520 Windsor Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2RP
Received 8 Oct 1998Off Roman Bank/Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jul 1995Records 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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