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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
36,278 approved · 4,380 refused · 1,311 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Near Leedsgate Bridge Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 1993Land South of Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 24 Jul 202525 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs, PE11 4JN
Received 16 Nov 199513 NETHERFIELD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NP
Received 25 May 2022KEEPERS COTTAGE GRANGE ROAD TERRINGTON ST CLEMENTS KINGS LYNN PE34 4HG
Received 22 Sept 2023Barrington House Farm Holbeach Spalding Lincs, PE12 8QG
Received 27 Sept 2002High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Jun 1998Willow Cottage Broad Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 3RY
Received 10 Feb 2014Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8SR
Received 19 Dec 2005Land between East Bank/Gunthorpe Road and Gunthorpe Road Solar Farm Walpole Bank, Walpole Marsh Wisbech PE14 7JJ
Received 26 Sept 2025Gimmels Gate Nursery Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Spalding
Received 14 Apr 1997Nationwide Building Society 3 West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LW
Received 15 Dec 2023Millstone Mill Lane Gedney Hill
Received 24 Nov 2005Silverhill Roman Bank Lutton Gowts
Received 10 Feb 2006ARBOUR HOUSE CHURCHGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TA
Received 22 Apr 2014Abbeygate Retirement Home High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jun 1999The Old Coach House The Old Vicarage Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 4 Nov 2008ANNASFIELD OLD FENDYKE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JR
Received 13 Apr 2017"Hardys Nursery" Park Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 1994Adderley House, London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 1997Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Sept 1994'Maydene' 142 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LT
Received 27 May 2009Loose Gate House Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6JZ
Received 1 Nov 2013Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Oct 1996Records 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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