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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sycamore Farm Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Nov 200098 SEAS END ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DQ
Received 13 Mar 2020Chestnut House North Penny Hill Washway Road Holbeach
Received 11 Sept 20033 RANDALL BANK MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0RT
Received 12 Dec 2019Tamarisk 41 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TD
Received 21 Jun 2010Holly Manor Goochgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0HF
Received 22 Oct 2001Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SH
Received 4 Oct 20224 All Saints Close Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6NZ
Received 15 May 2013Prospect Lodge Chestnut Terrace Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 9 Aug 2011Rear of 14 Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BN
Received 23 Sept 2026The Sycamores 13 Double Street Spalding
Received 13 Aug 2007Park Road Spalding
Received 16 Sept 2003Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 May 1998151 Boston Road North Holbeach
Received 18 Feb 2005Bourne Road West Pinchbeck Pinchbeck Bars Spalding
Received 24 Jan 19974 Wigeon Close Cowbit PE12 6XN
Received 12 Dec 200721 THE CHASE CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LN
Received 23 Feb 2015Select Timber Mill Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TL
Received 14 Dec 2011'Cire-Amor', Baulkins Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JU
Received 14 Mar 1995Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding
Received 2 Apr 20127 Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PE
Received 2 Jan 2019Risegate House Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 16 Jan 2026Jack Buck Farms Ltd Moulton Loosegate Spalding
Received 23 Mar 20064 Park Road Holbeach
Received 9 Mar 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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