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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The New Bungalow Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding
Received 16 May 1997Co-Op Garage High Street Whaplode
Received 14 Feb 2001THE COTTAGE STABLES TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PU
Received 9 Sept 2024Brenchley House Market Place Long Sutton Lincs
Received 25 Nov 1999Ayscoughfee Hall School Welland Hall London Road Spalding PE11 2TE
Received 23 Nov 2001The Bungalow Marsh Road Gedney Dyke
Received 19 Oct 200573 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 10 Jan 2005Adjacent to 44 Chappell Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3ER
Received 3 Jun 202425 Broadway Crowland Cambridgeshire PE6 0BH
Received 27 May 200513 Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 31 May 2000West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 200112 Station Street Donington
Received 28 Apr 2006Adjacent to 2 Fengate Drove Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6DJ
Received 30 Nov 2023The Chestnuts Topsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1994Rear of 18 High Street Moulton Spalding
Received 7 Aug 1992136 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UN
Received 19 May 200320 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 26 Jun 2017Small Drove Weston Spalding
Received 12 Nov 2001Holly Cottage Roman Bank Saracens Head
Received 3 Dec 2008Whaplode Garage High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 1992Eastfields Mill Lane Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs PE13 5SB
Received 7 Dec 2005Land adjacent Barrier Bank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Oct 2017102 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HJ
Received 13 May 2009BEECH HOUSE FARM COTTAGE HURN ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JD
Received 10 Feb 2015Records 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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