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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Homeland Eaugate Road Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SP
Received 16 Oct 2019Spalding Common Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 1999New House Nursery Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 1999The Old Cottage Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 6 Oct 2004Land Off Dean Close/Small Drove Weston Spalding
Received 1 Jun 2020Adjacent Harvest Home Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BL
Received 30 Mar 2010Land northwest of Lundys Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 2012Gosberton House Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 19983 Barrington Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NH
Received 13 Feb 2002Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 1992Glen Park Station Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 26 Jan 2023120 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UE
Received 25 Nov 2005Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding
Received 18 Oct 2011Woodhouse Farm Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 2 May 200876 DANIELS CRESCENT LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DR
Received 15 Oct 2018The Pines Pilmore Lane Spalding
Received 17 Dec 2001Poplar Farm Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 4 Oct 20182 Hereward Road Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Mar 2002Land off Enterprise Way South Holland Enterprise Park Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 200012 CRESCENT SPALDING PE11 1AE
Received 22 Dec 2008J I Ward Onslow House Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 27 Aug 199616 Park Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7EE
Received 6 Mar 2012Station House French Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NR
Received 5 Jul 2010Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding
Received 23 Mar 2016Records 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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