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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
37,200 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tops Gate Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Aug 1997Village Green Richard Busby Way Lutton Spalding PE12 9PT
Received 24 Feb 2021Riverbank Studios 57a Double Street Spalding
Received 16 Nov 2004Land adjacent Garthwaite Memorial Hall Park Lane Long Sutton
Received 1 Dec 2004Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1998Off Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3PU
Received 23 Apr 2025Holly Lodge 86 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 19 Sept 2011Plot 5, Rectory Lane Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jul 2000Ing Farm South Ing Drove Donington
Received 6 Aug 2002Plots 3 & 4 Drove Road Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TU
Received 29 Jun 2017Poultry Farm Carrington Drove Crowland PE6 OBZ
Received 31 Oct 2005CLEYHALL HOTEL 22 HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1TX
Received 29 Sept 2015Woodlands Caravan Park Jekils Bank Moulton Eaugate SPALDING PE12 0SX
Received 29 Nov 2016Hagbeach Manor Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RT
Received 6 Sept 1999TAWNY LODGE CHEAL ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4BA
Received 25 Oct 2023Parishes of Crowland and Newborough
Received 19 Apr 1993Plot: Junction Main Road/Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 11 Oct 2018CHURCH VIEW 87 HIGH ROAD WESTON SPALDING PE12 6RA
Received 11 Jul 2019Cresswell Close Benner Road Industrial Estate Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Oct 199461 Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 2002Land off Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RT
Received 17 Sept 2009Land off Low Road Crowland PE6 0BX
Received 9 Sept 2004Cowbit House Farm Deeping High Bank Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3DZ
Received 8 May 1998First Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4LD
Received 18 Feb 1994Records 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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