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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
35,346 approved · 4,236 refused · 1,275 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Mar 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
South Drove (East Road) Spalding Common Spalding Lincs
Received 19 May 1994The Poplars Hog's Gate Moulton
Received 12 Dec 2002Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BE
Received 26 May 200957 Days Lane Donington
Received 12 Jul 2006Land off Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding
Received 13 Nov 2025'Rydal', Ryfield Lane Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 1996Adjacent 62 Watergate Quadring Spalding PE11 4PY
Received 13 Jun 2013OLLARDS FARM HALL GATE ROAD THROCKENHOLT SPALDING PE12 0QS
Received 7 Dec 2015The Old Dairy Broadgate Road Gedney Broadgate
Received 12 Jun 2002Land at Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Dec 1996Site adjacent 2 Greenfields Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BJ
Received 29 Sept 2014Uppercuts 33 Red Lion Street Spalding PE11 1SX
Received 22 Aug 2016Cherrington Villa Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0PS
Received 13 Sept 2002Glen House Farm Seas End Road Surfleet
Received 28 Sept 20017 - 11 East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 2 Jul 2001Glenside Cars Glenside South Pinchbeck
Received 4 Jul 20081 Glentrees Main Road Gedney Drove End
Received 1 May 2003The Black Swan Public House 12 New Road Spalding
Received 18 Apr 2007Former Highways Sub Depot Hallgate Holbeach Spalding, Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1993Plot off Rainton Court Spalding PE12 6BD
Received 11 Oct 201236 High Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 8 Mar 2022Harrington House Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1998Moulton Chapel Road B1357 Cowbit PE12 0XD
Received 14 Jan 2005April Cottage Old South Eau Bank Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QR
Received 27 Mar 2013Records 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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