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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adj. The Bull Public House Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Sept 1999Land adjacent The Bull Hotel Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 11 Apr 200536 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 2000CHARMAR CRANESGATE SOUTH WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SN
Received 15 Sept 20227 Victoria Street Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 1994Part of field no. 8670 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jul 200163 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JR
Received 11 Dec 20025 Hall Hill Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 1999Chapelgate and Kingsgate Gedney
Received 4 Feb 2004165 Winsover Road (K & S Motors) Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Dec 199624 to 28 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QD
Received 2 Jan 201313 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QA
Received 9 Aug 2013Rear of 25 Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PE
Received 19 Jun 2023Off Old A17 Saracens Head
Received 6 Mar 200215 The Chantry Spalding Lincs PE11 3LF
Received 1 Aug 2007Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 29 Jan 2010Land at Langary Gate Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0RU
Received 16 Jun 202012 GREENFIELDS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BJ
Received 18 Oct 202368 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 26 Jul 2018Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove
Received 3 Nov 2004THE OLD RECTORY 1 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 17 Feb 2020Brunel Road off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 25 Jan 20082 Decoy Farm Cottages Postland Crowland
Received 24 Apr 20038 Church Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Sept 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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