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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plots 6 to 118 Foxes Low Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 7 Mar 2001Site Adj to 30 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BX
Received 25 Jan 2018Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Apr 1998Kingsgate Black Lion End Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 1992THE NOOK MILL LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PW
Received 13 Oct 2026The Gables Millgate Road Whaplode St Catherine
Received 13 Jun 2005Adjacent 135 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LF
Received 21 Sept 2012'Suncrest', Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PH
Received 27 Sept 1994Dizzy Heights Weston Hills Road Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6NE
Received 12 Oct 2011HYDRAULIC HOUSE WEST BANK SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QH
Received 3 Nov 2017Parish of Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Aug 19964 GOXHILL AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SZ
Received 14 Sept 201825 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4JN
Received 2 May 1996Westholme Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RT
Received 10 Nov 2004Moulton Chapel Youth and Community Centre Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Sept 2009Adjacent 18 Woods Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4AN
Received 15 Jul 2015573 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DB
Received 9 Mar 202227 Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jul 1999Plots 1-6, Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 4 Mar 1997Flag Lane Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 13 Feb 2023The Old Fire Station North Street Crowland
Received 7 May 199311 FAKENHAM CHASE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7QU
Received 6 Oct 201462 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 28 Nov 2018Pinchbeck Hall Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jun 1997Records 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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