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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
37,464 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 2 Feb 200712 Langwith Drive Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HQ
Received 14 Mar 2016Greendyke Farm Greendyke Lane Tydd St Mary
Received 30 Oct 2001New Bungalow Mill Drove Cowbit
Received 24 Sept 1997149 Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 22 Aug 2005Between 28 and 34 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0HP
Received 14 Mar 2011Woad Farmhouse, Holland Bank Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 25 May 1995Land south Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 24 Jun 2004Main Street Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 200118 Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DE
Received 23 Dec 2025105 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QL
Received 30 Dec 2019Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Dec 199688 WEST ELLOE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2BJ
Received 31 May 202247 MILESTONE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XR
Received 6 Jul 202133 OLD FENDYKE ROAD WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DD
Received 8 Mar 2022Land rear of 154 156 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 22 Oct 2002Land to rear: 45 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 15 Dec 2017'Croakers', Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 199639 Shearers Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3ZJ
Received 1 Aug 2012Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding.
Received 14 Oct 199217 Station Street Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Aug 19961a Hereward Road Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jun 1992Mercia Lodge 65 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QF
Received 6 Jun 2001Sycamore Cottage 36 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HE
Received 28 May 2014Records 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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