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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 south North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill
Received 14 Sept 2006Adjacent Chartwell 83 Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 11 Jun 2007Holbeach Community Centre Fishpond Lane Holbeach PE12 7DH
Received 27 Mar 200911 KEMP STREET CROWLAND PE6 0HE
Received 25 Mar 2014Off Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Jan 200034 Ladywood Road Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 2001THE OAKS 251 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 21 Aug 2018Crowhill Farm Pipwell Gate Saracens Head
Received 22 Mar 2007Fields Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SN
Received 13 Jun 201637 Moulton Chapel Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Dec 20112A Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Dec 2017Land to rear of 60 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 1 Dec 2003NORFOLK HOUSE SOUTH DROVE PODE HOLE SPALDING PE11 3ED
Received 27 Jun 2023McDonalds Restaurant Ltd Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 7 Dec 2009Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Aug 2000Ladypud Lodge Lowgate Fleet Spalding PE12 8LW
Received 4 Feb 2026Between 2 and 14 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 26 Aug 2014Rear of 5 & 7 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 1994Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 1995Eastlands Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 24 Dec 201434 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Mar 1994Land adjacent 1 Barnes Road Donington Spalding
Received 5 Jun 2014Armadean House Harford Gate Broadgate Gedney
Received 16 Jun 1993The Peele School 84 Little London Long Sutton
Received 21 Feb 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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