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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Willow Tree Farm Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 19 Feb 2001Land at 29 Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Mar 2013Tesco Store Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 2001Fulney Nursery, Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jul 199532 Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1995Land adjacent 1 Lancaster Drive Long Sutton
Received 12 Sept 2008'Church View' Watergate Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PY
Received 14 Jun 2001Park Farm Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 19965 COUNCIL HOUSE WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AZ
Received 27 Oct 2018Laurels Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1998Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 2000The Laurels Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JU
Received 1 Dec 2003Alfriston House North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Aug 1994Former Dwelling Adj Engineer's Yard High Road Whaplode
Received 17 Dec 1999Land off Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Mar 20242 PADDOCK GREEN SPALDING PE11 1XN
Received 14 Sept 20261 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 28 Aug 200197 Hall Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HS
Received 4 Dec 2018Grange Farm Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Apr 1997Bridge Hotel 4 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 6 Mar 2025Agricultural building at Peregrines Rest Farm Hallgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0AH
Received 29 Jun 2017Part of Spalding Auction Premises Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 21 Feb 200666 Peterborough Road Crowland Lincs PE6 0BA
Received 31 Mar 1998HORTECH SYSTEMS LTD HALL GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LG
Received 5 Oct 2020Records 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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