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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
36,679 approved · 4,451 refused · 1,332 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Daniels Acre, Chaldean Way (Plots 64-66 & 72-87) Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 199729 STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BP
Received 23 Nov 2022Deeping Fen Farm Baston Fen Peterborough
Received 4 May 199510 Woodgate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1996Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0AJ
Received 24 Nov 2016West Pinchbeck Water Treatment Works Parsons Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 22 Feb 1993Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 19933 Ambury Gardens Crowland PE6 0ET
Received 11 Sept 200614 Poachers Hide Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4PF
Received 2 Jun 201141a Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 8 Aug 2022222 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 1998Land to South & East of 36 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding
Received 19 Jun 202322 Wygate Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 199398 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 201072 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 19 Sept 2023THE WHITEHOUSE 53 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 15 Mar 2022The Old Infants School Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding, Lincs
Received 1 Mar 1993Land East of Crease Drove Crowland
Received 30 Jan 2020Mallard Hurn Farm Mallard Hurn Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 19957 West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Nov 1995Beech House 20 Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 5 Feb 202591 SEAGATE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AD
Received 12 Jun 201745 Hereward Road Spalding PE11 1HG
Received 21 Aug 201269 CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JW
Received 3 Jan 2018Records 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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