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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1995Land off South Parade Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 1999Brayfields Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 8 Oct 2015Plot 3 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jul 1992Risegate Eau Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate
Received 14 Jul 200418 Watergate Quadring Spalding
Received 29 Jun 2000North of 35 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EP
Received 10 Jul 2020Building Plots at Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 19974 Lincolns Avenue Gedney Hill
Received 24 Oct 2008Highbury 218 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 4 Apr 2008High Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TA
Received 6 Jul 2009Gables Nursery New Fen Drove Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PY
Received 15 Aug 2024Buildings and land adjacent Fresh Approach Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton PE11 4JE
Received 24 Sept 2015Broadgate Barns Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6JA
Received 25 Nov 2024Wingland Aero Club Wingland Airfield Green Dyke Gedney PE12 0BF
Received 11 Sept 2013Junction of Station Street and Sheep Market Spalding
Received 24 Jun 2003The Old Vicarage Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE1 3ET
Received 22 Oct 20076 HELMSLEY WAY SPALDING PE12 6BG
Received 8 Jul 20221a EDISON COURT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3FX
Received 13 Aug 2019Old Sea Bank Leadenhall Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 1994South Holland Enterprise Park 4 Flemming Road Wardentree Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Sept 1993CORNER LODGE WEST DROVE SOUTH GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PN
Received 26 Feb 2018Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1992Land at Hoddins Way Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JB
Received 25 Aug 2010Records 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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