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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
RED LODGE LANGARY GATE ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0RU
Received 6 Oct 2014Plot 8, Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 22 May 19964 Wimberley Close Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6WA
Received 31 Aug 200633 North Parade Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Oct 1996Land off Battlefields Lane Holbeach PE12 7PF
Received 2 Jul 2012St James's Lodge Farm Postland Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 1997The Chestnuts North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NL
Received 27 Jul 2021Bank House Farm Cooks Road Gosberton
Received 14 Mar 2003Tysdale Manor Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QH
Received 23 Dec 2013Plot to Rear of 156 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 3 Nov 2020Rear of 37 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 21 Apr 2015East Reach Farm Hop Pole Deeping St. Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3HJ
Received 15 Mar 2001THE OLD ROYAL STANDARD 114 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING
Received 4 Nov 2022Wimberley Hall Farm, Stonegate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Sept 1996Whaplode Methodist Church High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TJ
Received 9 May 20136 Viceroy Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TS
Received 7 Feb 201264 Swan Street Spalding
Received 29 May 2007Adj. Charnwood 259 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TG
Received 8 Jun 202335 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XU
Received 4 Oct 201837 GRANGE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DX
Received 6 Nov 2019Millfield Nursery Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AU
Received 3 Feb 2021Land north of Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 29 Apr 202543 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 25 Jul 2012BRIDGE HOUSE FARM RAVENS BANK SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EZ
Received 25 Jun 2014Records 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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