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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chestnut Farm Shop Main Road Gedney
Received 24 May 2005Decoy Farm Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 24 Aug 2006Willow Tree Nurseries Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate
Received 17 Dec 200818 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 2003Adjacent 27a Church Lane Donington
Received 10 Jan 2008Spalding Grammar School Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 2000Poachers Gate Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Aug 19941 3 Stukeley Road Holbeach
Received 14 Oct 2005Land Adj. 575 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6DP
Received 11 Nov 202012 Wygate Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1994Former: 6 Co-op Late Shop Market Place Donington Spalding PE11 4ST
Received 26 Jan 2017HOLLY TREE FARM 183 EAUGATE ROAD MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0SZ
Received 16 Feb 2015Mereside Westgate Weston Hills Spalding, Lincs
Received 10 Jun 1999Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 200035 - 47 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 23 May 2000Adjacent Weldon Cross Street Holbeach
Received 25 Sept 2008Crowmarsh Cottage Eastern Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8ES
Received 3 Aug 2011The Community Centre Lyndis Walk Holbeach
Received 26 Jul 2005Plot 2, Saracens Head Nursery Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jan 1992Bingham Lodge Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8ED
Received 21 May 2008Cherry Lodge Lowbridge Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NT
Received 25 Mar 200811a Glen Cottage Seas End Road Surfleet
Received 10 Jul 2008Land On The North West Side Of Roman Bank Spalding PE11 2HR
Received 26 Jun 2024Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1993Records 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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