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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chaintoft Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Aug 1996PLANTATION COTTAGE ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8DL
Received 16 Aug 2018MAPLE HOUSE 74 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NS
Received 26 Feb 2015Station House, Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1995The Robin Hood Inn 1 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JN
Received 28 Jul 201689 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 8 May 2013Hallgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 1997White Cross Farm Surfleet Road Surfleet
Received 26 Oct 200565 Austendyke Road Weston Hills PE12 6BX
Received 7 Mar 2003Plot 5 Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding
Received 4 Sept 1992PRINCES LIMITED BRIDGE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EQ
Received 19 Oct 2018THE HAVEN 83 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JQ
Received 15 Apr 20249 & 10 Tower Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 1993FARMLANDS LODGE 175 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TJ
Received 25 Aug 2015Glenside House Glenside North Pinchbeck PE11 3SD
Received 18 Sept 2006Spalding Energy Expansion Ltd West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 2BB
Received 8 Aug 2017Park Road Spalding
Received 26 May 2006The Memorial Park Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9SA
Received 1 Feb 2018Holbeach St Mark's CE Primary School Holbeach St Marks Holbeach Lincs
Received 27 Jul 2000Fifth Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 1 Mar 2022SPRINGWAY STOCKWELL GATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UE
Received 21 Oct 20246 CROSS STREET FLEET SPALDING PE12 7BD
Received 25 Aug 2022Barehams Lane Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PX
Received 10 Dec 1996West Marsh Road Pinchbeck Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 1993Records 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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