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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 1, Beechers Brook Penny Hill Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jun 1999Adj Vine Street Car Park Bedford Place Spalding
Received 10 Sept 2001Plot 2, The Courtyard Off Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 20 Dec 2000Irby Hall Millgate Whaplode
Received 14 Nov 2003Rear of 34-36 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1996Parkside Crescent Park Road Spalding PE11 1RA
Received 20 Apr 2018339 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 2 Oct 2014Hoddins Way Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JB
Received 30 Nov 2011ORCHARD HOUSE FARM CHOPDIKE DROVE GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JP
Received 6 Aug 2026102 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SA
Received 23 Nov 202136 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 1998Land between 71 and 73 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 2 Jul 200432 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AF
Received 27 Mar 2017120 & 132 Westhorpe Road (Plot between nos. 120 & 132) Gosberton Spalding
Received 23 Dec 1996Roman Bank Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 1999Stable Farm Short Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4JT
Received 31 Jan 2011Southern Wood House Nursing Home 20 Matmore Gate Spalding
Received 11 Jan 2008Beekens Yard North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 27 Sept 2007Between 21 & 23 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UA
Received 30 Apr 2015Green Gables Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4SD
Received 12 Jul 2007Monmouth Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9LH
Received 27 Feb 2023La Castagna Cheal Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BA
Received 17 Jan 2022264 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JR
Received 8 Oct 2009Churchview Stables Churchgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 2000Records 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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