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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Plough Public House 1 Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 15 Jul 200817 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2DS
Received 1 Apr 2016Highbury Cottage Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 13 Apr 2012Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs
Received 7 May 1998Whaplode House Stockwell Gate Whaplode, Spalding Lincs, PE12 6UE
Received 20 Sept 1993Springfields Nursery Camel Gate Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Mar 1995North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NS
Received 18 Feb 2011Land at School Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9HN
Received 23 Mar 2016Long Acre 105 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NS
Received 31 May 2005Cherrytree House Weydyke Bank Fleet Fen
Received 20 Feb 200631 The Crescent (side wall) Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1992Longhorsley View Hix's Lane Tydd St Mary Lincs PE13 5QW
Received 25 Jun 2003Horseplay Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 8 Feb 200634-36 Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AF
Received 25 Mar 2024New England Farm Delgate Bank Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DW
Received 1 Mar 2011Land adjacent: Seven Springs Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EU
Received 21 Mar 201727A Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TD
Received 26 Mar 200723A London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 2003Chaelise 12 Lowgate Lutton
Received 9 Jun 20064 Pinfold Lane Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JW
Received 22 Sept 2006Rose Garth White Cross Lane Surfleet
Received 19 Dec 2007Land off Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 1995White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1998105 Farrow Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 1998Records 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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