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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
37,472 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harvest Moon House Millgate Road Whaplode St Catherine Spalding, Lincs PE12 6SF
Received 28 Jan 2004Land to rear of 194 Park Road Spalding
Received 13 Jun 2005CHERRYHOLT COTTAGE STATION ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JB
Received 15 Oct 2024Dale Lodge Dowsdale Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs PE6 0NF
Received 20 Aug 1999GLENTYNE FARM FROSTLEY GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8SR
Received 19 Oct 2016Fenland Airfield Jekils Bank Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 199412 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 15 Nov 2000Adj. 106 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TW
Received 12 Oct 2021Whitegates Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 17 Mar 2010Unit 3, Cuckoo Farm North Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Dec 199762 Saxon Close Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jan 1994Adj. Birchwood Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9NW
Received 8 Feb 2022Land adjacent 13 Horsepit Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YB
Received 12 Jan 2011Former Potato Warehouse Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 27 Aug 201433 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1999PARK FARM COTTAGE DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ND
Received 14 Jan 2022West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jan 1992Land off Station Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 23 May 2018Unit 6, Holland Markets Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 1997The Bungalow Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NF
Received 28 Jul 2000The Coach House Halmer Gate Spalding
Received 30 Mar 2004Fleet Road/Branches Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Nov 19953 Abbots Drive Crowland PE6 0BT
Received 15 Feb 2002102 Park Road Spalding PE11 1QY
Received 7 Apr 2009Records 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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