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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
37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2-4 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HG
Received 29 Nov 2022Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding
Received 27 Sept 2001Adj. Little Chestnuts Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Oct 2000Clay Lake Spalding PE12 9BL
Received 4 Feb 2014Broadgate Drove Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 0XU
Received 29 Jul 1996West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PN
Received 21 Nov 2019Martins Farm House Martins Road Postland Crowland PE6 0JU
Received 6 May 2008Leadenhall Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8HB
Received 22 Sept 2006Off Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding
Received 14 Jan 2019Land adj. 185 Railway Lane South Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UZ
Received 6 Dec 2016Land between 12-20 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Apr 2019Adjacent: Lea House 29 River Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6NX
Received 22 Feb 2018Wygate Park South Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 2012Land at Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Nov 199987 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding PE12 0XD
Received 9 Nov 2020Ibsley 17 Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EN
Received 12 Sept 2017The Old Coach House 8 High Street Moulton
Received 7 Jun 200730 Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PN
Received 14 Oct 2002Tsunami Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 19 Sept 2008Adjacent to 3 Chapel Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 2011The Sycamores Farm Churchgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 8 Dec 2014Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Nov 2011Land Adj. 80 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AQ
Received 6 Jun 2022The Chestnuts Farm Shop Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jul 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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