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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Off High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TG
Received 16 Jul 2019Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Sept 1999Plot adjacent 52 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 13 Feb 2007Millfield Nursery Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PW
Received 21 Nov 19966 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End Spalding PE11 4DJ
Received 24 Dec 2021Pinchbeck Hall 58 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YA
Received 1 May 20131 APELDOORN GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1JT
Received 30 Apr 2020The Bungalow New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 6 Apr 2005Adj. The Old Chequers Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 15 Dec 1999305 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 28 Aug 2003Alshema 48 Fen End Lane Little London Spalding, Lincs
Received 30 Jan 1992Plot 14 Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 2000Land off Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Dec 19942 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 16 Feb 2022Land Adj. Glen House Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 24 Feb 1998Off Church Gate Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 19 May 1993Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 199320 Crown Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1994Tilsons Yard Black Barn Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PA
Received 28 Apr 2021Wragg Marsh Farm Marsh Road Spalding
Received 28 Oct 2005Albert Street - Acacia Avenue Spalding PE11 2LR
Received 18 Jun 2004Adj 1 Seas End Road Surfleet
Received 11 Nov 2002"Riverside" (Bloodfold Farm) Ravens Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding
Received 24 Apr 1992"The Red House" 97 High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 1 May 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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