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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HOLMHURST 24 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 1 Jun 2023Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 22 Sept 2004Between 31 & 35 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EN
Received 4 Oct 2023Inley Drove Fleet Fen Spalding (Parish of Sutton St.James)
Received 23 Nov 1992Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 1995Cloughs Cross Bridge Carrying B1166 over North Level Main Drain Throckenholt, Spalding
Received 27 Oct 1992Churchview Stables Church End Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 2000Cassini Lodge 58 Seas End Road Mouton Seas End Spalding
Received 29 Mar 2022Off Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Mar 20008 Cobgate Close Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Nov 2003Rear of Saracens Head Public House Saracens Head
Received 24 Jul 2002Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn SPALDING PE12 8JT
Received 24 Jan 2018Land to Rear of Emmanuel House Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PS
Received 9 Aug 2021Adjacent Peverill 51 Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 30 Jan 2008The Mill, Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 30 Jan 199882 BATTLEFIELDS LANE SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PG
Received 7 Jun 2024The Old Rectory Church End Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 199450 Halmergate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EE
Received 25 May 2010Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 11 Nov 2005The Beeches Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 26 Jul 2004Wygate Foundation Nursery Spalding Primary Academy Woolram Wygate Spalding PE11 1PB
Received 25 Mar 202246A Postland Road Crowland Lincs PE6 0JB
Received 30 Apr 1996The Gables Millgate Road Whaplode St Catherine
Received 18 Nov 2005HOMEBASE 70 WESTLODE STREET SPALDING PE11 2AE
Received 22 Sept 2017Records 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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