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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
37,482 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Glebe Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QL
Received 28 Dec 20125 Sheep Market Spalding
Received 19 Nov 200452 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JH
Received 17 Jun 2019Rose Cottage King John Bank Walpole St Andrew Wisbech PE14 7JS
Received 5 Dec 2012Gedney Hill Farm Eastfields Luttongate Road Gedney Hill PE12 0QH
Received 20 Jun 2016LILACRE ROMAN BANK LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LJ
Received 4 Jul 2019"Valencia" Cranesgate Road Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 1993Swift Farm Bourne Road West Pinchbeck
Received 17 Dec 2008MARLOW HOUSE FENGATE ROAD WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NE
Received 4 May 202235 FENNELL ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RP
Received 12 Aug 2021Holland Villas 10 & 11 High Street Spalding PE11 1TW
Received 2 Feb 2023THE FORGE COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5QH
Received 15 Sept 2017Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding
Received 25 Jun 2001Chaintoft Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 19948 Market Place (Spalding Branch) Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Sept 1997Ayscoughfee Hall Museum & Gardens Church Gate Spalding PE11 2RA
Received 12 May 2022Off Needham Drive Sutton St James
Received 2 May 2008Old A17, Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 1994Land to the rear of The Hawthorns Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 1999184 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SF
Received 7 Dec 2010THOMAS COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TF
Received 19 Jun 2023Land at Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AD
Received 14 Nov 2019Cover House Unit 2 including First Floor Wardentree Park Pinchbeck PE11 3ZN
Received 16 Jan 201986 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NS
Received 27 Apr 2007Records 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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