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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
37,339 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
254 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TG
Received 29 Oct 2018Whitehouse Farm Wykes Lane Donington
Received 23 Aug 2007Walnut Lodge Mill Bank End Holbeach Fen
Received 12 Feb 2004PEAK HILL HOUSE 30 PEAK HILL COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AW
Received 20 Nov 202542 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NJ
Received 11 Aug 1995Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jun 1997Holland Lodge Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RR
Received 18 Feb 2011West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1997Maple House Farm North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NS
Received 24 Nov 2011Adjacent: Millgate House Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherines Spalding Lincs PE12 6SE
Received 8 Mar 2016Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 19945 Herring Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jul 1992High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 1992Tidswell Bungalow Burr Lane Spalding PE12 6AZ
Received 19 Mar 2026Frostley Gate Nursery Frostley Gate Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 1993Sutton Bridge Telephone Exchange Church Gate Sutton Bridge
Received 2 Apr 2007Plot 56, Wygate Park (Phase 2) Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1997Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 1993Northgate Barn Northgate Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 24 Feb 1993Chapmans Site, (Phase 1) (Frontages of plots 1-15, 39-41 & approach road thereto) Seagate Road, Long Sutton
Received 17 Feb 1998Church Street Donington
Received 8 Apr 2003Land Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AU
Received 4 Mar 2005Phoenix Lodge Winters Lane Long Sutton
Received 18 Sept 20074 Rotten Row Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RH
Received 27 Sept 2006Records 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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