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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The New House West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PL
Received 4 Jul 2006FERNDALE BIRDS DROVE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BE
Received 28 Jan 2014Phase 7 Holland Park Horseshoe Road Spalding, Lincs
Received 23 Aug 1991OAK LODGE CHEAL ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JQ
Received 14 Nov 2024North Holme North Road Gedney Hill
Received 23 Aug 2001Land off St Thomas's Road Spalding, Lincs
Received 16 Apr 199925 Chapel Street Crowland PE6 0AR
Received 27 Jun 2007Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Dec 1994Land East of River Nene Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 2011Plot 3 Lincolnshire Gateway Business Park Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 Feb 2025Timberland Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1999Units 7 to 13 Millfield Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UR
Received 10 Sept 2012We Buy Any Car Pod Holland Market Winfrey Avenue Spalding PE11 1RQ
Received 26 Sept 2023National Westminster Bank 25 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1993Old Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 11 Feb 20057 Stricklands Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AS
Received 11 Jan 2013BEDFORD HOUSE 10 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 3 Jun 201624 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 4 Jun 2020THE BARNS BAREHAMS LANE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PX
Received 7 Feb 2018Silverdrive Salem Street Gosberton
Received 20 Aug 2003Land adjacent: Woolie Farm Langary Gate Road Gedney Hill PE12 0RU
Received 29 Aug 2019Main Road Gedney Drove End
Received 31 May 2001The Grainstore Days Lane Bicker Road Donington
Received 15 Jan 2001Land to rear 146 and 142 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 23 May 2005Records 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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