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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
37,557 approved · 4,547 refused · 1,376 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Turners Turkey Farm Neals Gate Fleet Fen Spalding
Received 1 Sept 1993Yellow Stocking Hall Farm The Chase Crowland PE6 0DD
Received 30 Dec 2019Gosberton Manor Outbuildings Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 24 Apr 199217 STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 9 Nov 2021Ash House Farm Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 30 Jun 202339 INDEPENDENCE DRIVE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TR
Received 8 Jul 2021Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UE
Received 15 Nov 2019Pebble Close/Stanley Drive (Plots 640-643) Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 2 Oct 1996St Marys Church Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 24 Jan 2005Wygate Park (North of distributor road) Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Oct 1995The Vicarage (south side garden) 5 Church Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 23 Feb 201883 Edinburgh Drive Spalding
Received 19 May 2008Rear: 3 Water Gate Quadring Spalding PE11 4PY
Received 19 Oct 2016The Hollies 60 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PZ
Received 12 Jul 200722 WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BH
Received 18 May 2026Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 1997BROADGATE HOUSE 696 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JA
Received 22 Jan 2018Enterprise Way South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding
Received 29 Sept 1995SOUTH LINCS CREMATORIUM GOSBERTON ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AA
Received 1 Dec 2022Barn to the rear of East Reach House Main Road Hop Pole Spalding PE11 3HJ
Received 19 Nov 2014Glen Park Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DA
Received 8 Dec 2011Farm Cottage Birds Drove Sutton St James
Received 10 Mar 2008Plot B Adjacent The Hawthorns Northgate West Pinchbeck
Received 6 Apr 2005Wragg Marsh Off-Take Carrington Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 2001Records 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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