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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
97 HALL GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HS
Received 23 Apr 202028 St Andrews Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Feb 1999Willow Lodge Thary Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BN
Received 23 Nov 20121 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 3 Aug 200111 SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LD
Received 5 May 2021Weston Hills C E Primary School Weston Hills Spalding
Received 26 Apr 2001Chapelgate and Kingsgate Gedney
Received 4 Feb 2004Homeleigh Farm Huntsgate Gedney Broadgate Spalding
Received 10 Mar 1999Pear Tree House Farm 117 Luttongate Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QH
Received 9 Aug 201299 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 19986 Sheila Crescent Spalding Lincs PE1 1LE
Received 17 Aug 2004Plot Adj. 8 Beccelm Drive Crowland PE6 0AG
Received 28 Mar 19962 Stukeley Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1998Land off Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 27 Apr 202225 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 18 May 2004Paul Hammond and Sons Ltd 75 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YA
Received 11 Dec 2013Hunters Lodge, Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 199748 CROSS STREET SPALDING PE11 2YG
Received 28 Feb 2017HALMER COURT 108 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2EL
Received 20 May 2021Corner Cottage Lowgate Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QP
Received 20 Sept 2004CROWN FARM 4 STOCKWELL GATE WEST WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6WG
Received 31 Oct 2017Land off Waterside Gardens Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Feb 2000Site between 71 and 73 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 7 Sept 2007Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 11 Dec 2024Records 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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