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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 1, Watergate Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Aug 1994The Cottage Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs, PE12 9JP
Received 16 Feb 20041 LOVE LANE SPALDING PE11 2PE
Received 15 Oct 201517 St Johns Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 2004Vine Street Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 2001Station Farm Eastgate Fleet
Received 31 Aug 2001Montague House Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8LD
Received 21 May 1992Land adjacent: Longfield Greendyke Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QX
Received 11 Sept 2019The Rectory 46 East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 19 Apr 2013Horse and Jockey Public House West Pinchbeck
Received 12 Jun 2002Methodist Church Station Road Surfleet
Received 10 Sept 2001Frontage land south east Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 19 Dec 200554 CROWN DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2HU
Received 14 Mar 2022Land at Station Street Spalding PE11 1BL
Received 5 Jun 2019Holland Market Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 16 Aug 200434 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 2004CORNER LODGE WEST DROVE SOUTH GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PN
Received 3 Aug 2018Plot 1, Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 1992HARVEST LODGE STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 13 Feb 2015Maple Villa 7 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EF
Received 1 Feb 2011Barn 1 and Barn 2 Bullocks Short Gate Gedney Fen Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 8 Mar 2017Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding PE12 8ST
Received 5 Jun 2025HIGH VIEW 15 STOCKWELL GATE WEST WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6WG
Received 14 Jan 2021Land between 55-81 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 19 Dec 2024Records 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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