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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Poplar Farm Barns Maisdyke Lane Fleet Spalding PE12 8NH
Received 10 Dec 2012492 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DA
Received 26 Feb 2002Appletree Farm House 120 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XX
Received 24 Aug 2006Rear 165 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 25 Jul 2007Tamarisk Cobgate Whaplode
Received 7 Oct 2005Rear of 'Meadowscroft' 66 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 7 Aug 1997Land at Thames Road Spalding
Received 9 May 2006Primrose Farm Hunts Gate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 8NT
Received 30 Jan 20123 Smithdale Close Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 2002VINE HOUSE FARM 156 NENE TERRACE ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LH
Received 31 Jul 2018Adj. 80 Wygate Road Spalding
Received 31 Aug 2001Adj. Willow House, Church End Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 1996Wyvale Garden Centres Ltd Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 17 Jul 2025The Mission Main Road Tongue End Spalding
Received 5 Oct 1992Church End House Church End Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1994Lords Manor Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EN
Received 16 Jul 2024Harrington Hall Nursery Little Marsh Lane Fleet
Received 10 Nov 200824 West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 8 Sept 2003Phoenix Lodge Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BE
Received 5 May 20101 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JJ
Received 22 Feb 2019Plot 1, Mill Drove Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Aug 20007 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UD
Received 16 Apr 2024FIGARO STONEGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BY
Received 12 Feb 202123 NORTHONS LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PZ
Received 11 Mar 2022Records 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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