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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Playing Field High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 2016Land fronting Churchgate and Stonegate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1995"Jensalbry", Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jan 1995Manor Lodge Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UP
Received 21 Mar 201949 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XT
Received 2 Jul 2010The Manor Washway Road Holbeach
Received 27 Mar 2008Lavender Corner King John Bank Walpole St Andrew Wisbech PE14 7JT
Received 22 Sept 2023Land at Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 1999The Rowans Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TB
Received 12 Mar 20132 New Road & 1-3 Chapel Lane Spalding PE11 1BS
Received 3 Oct 2023309A Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 17 Jan 201379 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AA
Received 23 Mar 2007Lionsbridge Stables Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 23 Oct 2007AYSCOUGHFEE HALL SCHOOL WELLAND HALL LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TE
Received 20 Sept 2022Fairview Farm, 19 Mill Drove Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AS
Received 3 Nov 1997CROWLAND ABBEY CHURCH LANE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0ER
Received 5 Oct 2022Land at 106 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4ET
Received 24 Sept 2019Lannercroft Cobgate Whaplode
Received 24 Nov 2004Land between Seagate Road & Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Apr 202632 High Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 1992Pig Unit, Ryefield Lane Gedney Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 1997Rear of Broadgate House Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 1994Land East of Forest Way Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 22 Dec 2025Dial House 28 London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 4 Mar 2022Records 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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