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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Leamside Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QL
Received 10 May 20133 Shivean Gate Moulton Spalding PE12 6PL
Received 25 Jun 2014Magic 19 Field Close Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NY
Received 15 Jun 2005Hix's Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 26 Aug 1997Site rear: 10 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6NL
Received 18 Sept 201917 ST JOHNS STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AB
Received 27 Aug 2021Plum Tree House Harford Gate Gedney Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2019Land between Spalding Road (A16) & Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jan 19944 Church Site Joy's Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 1995Kings Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jun 2011Sweetlands, Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 2000Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 19972 Goxhill Avenue Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Nov 1997Hollytree Farm Broadgate Weston
Received 23 Jun 2005Adjacent: The Barn Gosberton Bank Gosberton Spalding, Lincs PE11 4PB
Received 19 Feb 1991A S Whitaker Sons Stephenson Avenue South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding
Received 21 Feb 2007Bicker Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XP
Received 8 Jan 2002Adj. 2 Bicker Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 200018 North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EF
Received 3 Oct 2000Rear 39 41 High Street Holbeach
Received 9 May 20073 LINDEN WAY WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NR
Received 23 May 20149 Main Road Tongue End Spalding Lincs PE11 3JJ
Received 17 Jul 2012Land Adj. 14 Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 11 Sept 2025West Marsh Road, Trial Grounds Pinchbeck Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1994Records 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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