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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
3 BATTLEFIELDS LANE SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PH
Received 22 Jan 2021Green Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LT
Received 10 Mar 2010Agricultural Building: Peregrines Rest Farm Hallgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0AH
Received 30 Mar 2017Windcatch, Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1997Adjacent 204 High Road Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JU
Received 10 Jun 2013Land adjacent 1 Drawdyke Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jan 201015-16 Workshop and Premises Cowbit Road Spalding PE11 2RD
Received 13 Mar 2026Land off Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 1996PENDENNIS LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 1 Mar 2018Land adjacent 139a Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 3 Jan 2007Land between proposed SEE and Wragg Marsh AGI to north east of Spalding
Received 30 Mar 201596 Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 24 Jan 2006Rear of Westerley Back Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TT
Received 8 Sept 20251 Homlea Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 30 Mar 1993Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding
Received 1 Apr 1992Dunns Seeds Long Sutton Ltd Winters Lane Long Sutton
Received 25 Mar 2004Maple Lodge, Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Apr 19961 PRIMROSE CRESCENT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RT
Received 15 Aug 2024Elsoms Way Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 16 Aug 2016ALDER VETERINARY SURGERY 58 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JW
Received 22 Dec 2014Rear of 2 Swapcoat Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jan 1992Land off High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 May 1999Seagate Hall Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 1999Land off Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Aug 1996Records 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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