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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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The Vicarage Church Walk Holbeach PE12 7DT
Received 12 Apr 2013Chestnut Farm, Topsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 1995The Bungalow Hither Old Gate Holbeach
Received 25 Mar 2004Grange Farm Middle Road Tydd St Mary PE13 5QZ
Received 11 Mar 2013Farm House Cottage Cuckoo Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XT
Received 20 Jan 201717 FLINDERS ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TT
Received 15 Apr 2020South of Vernatts Drain & west of Two Plank Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 1992Site off Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NB
Received 4 Oct 1991Reeds Yard Rear: 10 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 31 Mar 200521 St Marys Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RW
Received 15 Sept 201627 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 199923 St Marys Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DU
Received 29 May 2013Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 1992Oak Lodge Saltney Gate Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8AT
Received 10 Sept 2025Tydd Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 199542 Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 27 Sept 2005Former Crown Farm House Carrington Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LS
Received 14 Oct 2019113 Fleet Road Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1994Lowgate Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 15 Jul 1996The Raceground Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1993Seagate Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 2000Land off Back Gate and to the north of Curlew Drive Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 5 Apr 2001GARNSGATE HALL FARM LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 1 Dec 2014Elm Lane Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 1995Records 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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