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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Home Farm Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RY
Received 3 Jun 202485 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs.
Received 5 Jun 2003Adj. 78 Wygate Road Spalding PE11 1NT
Received 7 Sept 2021CHARTWELL 83 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JU
Received 2 May 201812 London Road Spalding
Received 28 Sept 200496 Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 23 Jun 2006Park Farm Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 1996Millhaven Lowgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BL
Received 13 Oct 2017Adj Holmlea Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RT
Received 4 Jun 202438 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4ET
Received 20 Jul 20232 Summers Lane Off Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 13 Apr 2011Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AQ
Received 14 Feb 199430 Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XX
Received 22 Oct 2001Land off Stonegate Cowbit Spalding
Received 16 Jun 2023Land east: Spring Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 1992Wool Hall Farm Wykeham Spalding
Received 9 Aug 2004East Road Tydd Gote PE13 5QF
Received 27 Sept 2018Main Road Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Aug 1997Springfields Outlet Centre Units 46, 47, 48 Camel Gate Spalding PE12 6EU
Received 16 Jun 2015Plots 7-9 Stonegate Gedney
Received 13 Sept 2001Unit 32 Springfields Retail Outlet Camel Gate Spalding
Received 10 Jan 2008Heatherdown Elm Lane Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EQ
Received 21 Jun 2013Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding
Received 1 Jun 2012Poplar Cottage Cowfield Gould Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 1998Records 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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