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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Japonica Farm Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1992WARRENS REST CAPES ENTRY COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AG
Received 25 Jan 201865 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 1994Welbourn Lane (East) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1999BP, Little London Spalding
Received 26 Nov 2001Damgate Holbeach
Received 23 Sept 2003Hagbeach Manor Millgate Whaplode
Received 2 Jul 2007'Escallonia' 3 Holland Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 1994108 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EY
Received 21 Jul 2026Barn to rear of 145 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4EN
Received 6 Dec 2012St Malo Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PS
Received 24 Apr 2026Adj Mill View Penny Hill Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DN
Received 21 May 202615 Ash Court Donington Spalding PE11 4XJ
Received 13 Nov 2017134 Pennygate Spalding PE11 1NW
Received 24 Apr 2009SEAS END HALL HALL LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LB
Received 3 Jul 2025Tal-Y-Llyn Capes Entry Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AG
Received 11 Jul 2011Land adjacent Sycamore Farm Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jul 1993Rainham Hundred Fen Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 20 May 1992Adj Sycamore Grange Cross Drove Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PZ
Received 11 Sept 2023White House Farm Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Mar 199944 CLEY HALL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2EB
Received 25 Jan 2023Cavalier Contracts Ltd Seagate Road Long Sutton
Received 9 Nov 2007Rookery Farm Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8SG
Received 4 Feb 2016Decoy Farm Power Ltd. Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland PE6 0LX
Received 22 Jul 2026Records 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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