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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
35,695 approved · 4,288 refused · 1,295 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear garden: Chapel Cottage Church Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs E13 5QY
Received 14 Jul 2016Land between 31 and 35 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EN
Received 5 Sept 2011Wignal's Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 2019The Corner House Drain Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AF
Received 27 Oct 200019 Upper Welland Terrace London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 22 Feb 201027 Foreman Way Crowland Peterborough PE6 0DJ
Received 8 Aug 2003The Thomas Cowley Secondary School Donington
Received 9 Jun 2003Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 199660 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1QF
Received 3 Feb 2026Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 1994Adjacent 27A Chapel Street Crowland PE6 0AR
Received 29 May 2007Tanglewood Cedar Falls London Road Spalding
Received 6 Dec 2002The Ship Albion Public House 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 5 Jun 20094 Campbells Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2UH
Received 17 Dec 1997Land at Lowgate Fleet Spalding
Received 8 Nov 2022141 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TW
Received 3 Feb 201510 ABBOTS DRIVE CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BT
Received 3 Oct 202353 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 16 Apr 2018Annesfield Mission House Road Sutton St James Spalding
Received 31 Aug 1993Plot 3, Bramble Grange Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 1993DAMRACK RYEFIELD LANE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 8PS
Received 27 Jan 20224 Bramble Close Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9FL
Received 19 Dec 2013The Forge Black Barn Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9NE
Received 17 Oct 2013RYECROFT HOUSE 86 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NS
Received 7 Jul 2016Records 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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