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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent: Gedney Dyke Village Hall Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0AJ
Received 23 Nov 2016Decoy Farm House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 6 Aug 2009The Butterfly and Wildlife Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LF
Received 27 May 2014Former Water Tower, Hospital Drove Little Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 2000Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Apr 1994Ferndale Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs PE12 0TX
Received 6 Aug 2004Fulney Lane North Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6EP
Received 11 Mar 2026East Midlands Electricity Sub-Station Spalding Drove Spalding
Received 12 Jun 2001Old Police Station Victoria Street Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 1996Cardon House Rectory Lane Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0EA
Received 24 Mar 2006300 High Road Whaplode
Received 24 Oct 2007RED ROOF 185a NENE TERRACE ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LD
Received 16 Jan 2026230 BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AL
Received 3 Mar 2020Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 199714 Osier Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 1995Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 200919 CROWN AVENUE HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EU
Received 3 Feb 2020HAWTHORNS CARAVAN PARK CLAY LAKE SPALDING PE12 6BL
Received 15 Jun 2018Rear 42 West Street Crowland PE6 0ED
Received 13 Mar 2007Adjacent to The Cross Keys Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 19943 Claudette Way Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Oct 199842 Churchill Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Aug 1993Land off Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HU
Received 9 Aug 2019Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 16 Feb 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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