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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Bank House Farm Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 1998The Blue Bell P.H. Cranesgate Whaplode St Catherines Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1992Willow Lodge 3 Church Lane Donington Spalding
Received 17 Jul 202538 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Mar 2001An Hendra The Common Crowland PE6 0HL
Received 5 Feb 2013Warehouse & Yard Adj. Eastern Forge Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 9UE
Received 12 Feb 2024Land at Hundreds Lane Little Sutton
Received 6 Aug 2003Plot 5 Elsom Way Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 15 Sept 2005Land off Whale Drove Crowland
Received 1 May 201594 ST THOMAS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2YW
Received 9 Jun 20157 Harvest Mews Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3UJ
Received 23 Sept 201928 Keightley Road Saracens Head Holbeach Spalding PE12 8BE
Received 23 Mar 2012'The Homestead Nursery' Hallgate Gedney
Received 28 Apr 200916 Abbots Gardens Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6SZ
Received 9 Jun 2005Plot 5, Off Churchgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1994BOUNDARY HOUSE 10 SHIVEAN GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PL
Received 27 Oct 201612 Golden Harvest Way Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 2000Five Bells Common Way Tydd St Mary PE13 5QH
Received 21 Jun 200253 St Annes Way Spalding Lincs PE11 3PN
Received 10 Feb 2003Ravensgate Nursery Ravensgate Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RD
Received 20 May 2009Gosberton House Care Home Gosberton House Westhorpe Road Gosberton PE11 4EW
Received 25 Oct 2013Stephenson Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SW
Received 6 Mar 2019Holbeach St Matthew Church Barge Road Holbeach St Matthew
Received 19 Jan 2005Low Lane (East) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Feb 1997Records 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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