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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XA
Received 27 May 2020Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Aug 1993FOWLER WELCH LTD WEST MARSH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2BB
Received 1 Oct 201812 West Cobgate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QN
Received 14 May 201259 Bowgate Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 199442 - 44 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1999Holbeach Road (Junction of A16/A151) South East Quadrant Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 1997Bleak House, High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1998Irby House Millgate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs
Received 14 Jun 1999VINE HOUSE FARM BIRD FOODS VINE HOUSE FARM MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS PE11 3DG
Received 26 Mar 201913 The Tilney Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6UW
Received 8 Nov 2007300 High Road Whaplode
Received 12 Apr 2007Potato Pack House Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn
Received 15 Jul 2008Midfield Nursery West Drove Gedney Hill
Received 6 Nov 200241 BRIDGE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EF
Received 14 Jun 2018Land adjacent: 33 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RA
Received 24 Apr 2019268 Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LH
Received 15 Sept 199733 North Parade Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AJ
Received 12 May 200628 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Feb 2003Houghton Produce Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NE
Received 27 Apr 2026HOLMEFIELD 121 SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LD
Received 20 Apr 202036 Mountbatten Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 199919 Coalbeach Lane South (Plot 1 & 2) Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DE
Received 30 Jul 2020Salem Street Gosberton
Received 7 Aug 2003Records 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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