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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land rear The Old Methodist Chapel Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 16 May 2005EAGLE HOUSE MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RY
Received 5 Feb 2026LABURNUM HOUSE WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AY
Received 22 Oct 2014Parish of Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Aug 1996West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 4 Oct 1999Adj. Sandawn Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Aug 2000J L Farms Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EW
Received 26 Apr 2012Cranesgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1994Trinity House Pinstock Lane Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BT
Received 21 Apr 1992Poachers Gate Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 1 Aug 199418 Belgrave Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2UZ
Received 4 Apr 2000Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AG
Received 30 Jan 2013St Annes Way Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 1994St John the Baptist CE Primary School Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 29 Nov 2006Land rear of Holbeach Library Church Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 23 May 1997Unit 22 Springfields Outlet Village Camel Gate Spalding
Received 24 Aug 2006Willow Cottage Maisdike Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NH
Received 1 Feb 2002Church Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 1994Barrowby House Northgate West Pinchbeck
Received 14 Jun 2004Swan Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1BP
Received 18 Jul 1997Roman Bank Saracens Head Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1992Lutton House 1 Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HP
Received 25 Feb 2011Adjacent 26 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 19 Dec 2003Millbank Farm Millbank Holbeach Fen
Received 1 Nov 2005Records 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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