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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
"The Chequers" Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding
Received 26 May 199312 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs, PE11 4XU
Received 26 Aug 1992Land North Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 1 Mar 200535 Church Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LL
Received 26 Apr 2017Adjacent 12 Station Road Donington
Received 3 Nov 2005Land at Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PA
Received 4 Mar 2019No 1 near Church Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Aug 199219 & 21 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jun 1997Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UP
Received 14 Nov 2014Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 13 May 2003Off Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 2010Spalding Business Centre Church Street Spalding PE11 2PB
Received 9 Dec 2014Bambridge & The Pastures Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TU
Received 12 Feb 2018Moulton Bulb Company Ltd Long Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6PP
Received 10 Nov 2011Land Adjacent to The Poplars 164 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 16 Jul 2026High Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 1996Walnut Tree Field Coalbeach Lane South Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DE
Received 21 Sept 201839-41 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1999Cheviot House Langary Gate Gedney Hill
Received 17 Mar 200354 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AQ
Received 18 Aug 2010Charltons Hall Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QG
Received 16 Feb 201850 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LX
Received 21 Nov 200530 Orchard Close Donington Spalding PE11 4TY
Received 15 Nov 2012Parish of Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Apr 1994Records 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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