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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
31,514 approved · 3,861 refused · 1,140 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Hollies Farm Yard Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 1 Dec 2014Bridge Farm Fen Road Donington
Received 15 Apr 2008104 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 19 Jul 2016102 NORTH STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EF
Received 16 Mar 2023Adj. Goldwoods (formerly Laurel Lodge Farm) (A17) Fleet Spalding
Received 10 Feb 19982 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TB
Received 20 Feb 2017The Paddocks, Luttongate Road Throckenholt Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 19983 WEST END HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NQ
Received 4 Jun 2019Adj. Walnut Cottage Lutton Gate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding
Received 26 Jul 1999Community Centre 38 St Marys Gardens Long Sutton
Received 16 Jul 2002Broadgate Nursery Broadgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 28 Mar 2024Gosberton Medical Centre Low Gate Gosberton
Received 21 Dec 2007UNIT 6 RAILWAY LANE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE RAILWAY LANE NORTH SUTTON BRIDGE PE12 9UN
Received 30 Jul 201991 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 28 Jul 2015TARANTELLA FRONT ROAD TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5RF
Received 28 Apr 2016Rear of 80 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BT
Received 16 Jun 2014Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding
Received 4 Apr 202224 Church Street Holbeach
Received 12 Feb 2007Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding
Received 3 Mar 2011Workshop Junction Fengate Road/Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 26 Nov 2004Land adj. Speechleys Cottages Crowland Common Crowland Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 2001Carrington Lodge 115 Dog Drove North Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0SA
Received 29 Feb 201242-44 Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 2018Lowfields Nurseries Fulney Drove Low Fulney Spalding
Received 18 Aug 1997Records 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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