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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Gate Farm Holbeach Road Spalding PE12 6JR
Received 10 Aug 2021A PALMER AND SONS ROSE VILLA FARM GIPSY LANE GEDNEY PE12 0AZ
Received 12 Sept 2014Land Between Seagate Rd & B1359 Wisbech Rd Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 24 Nov 2023Adjacent Chailey House Lowgate Gedney
Received 18 Apr 2005Adjacent to Rowan Lowgate Fleet Hargate
Received 2 Sept 2003High Street (Residential development at former Johnson Bros site) Spalding
Received 27 May 1997Chailey House Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 201018 POACHERS HIDE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PF
Received 23 Jan 2019Land off Crosby Row Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SR
Received 7 Aug 2009Fleet Road/Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate
Received 24 Aug 20013 Mayfair Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2UG
Received 2 Dec 2005Former Pinchbeck Dairies Pennyfield Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RG
Received 23 Nov 2018Land adj The Coach House Haycroft Lane Fleet Spalding PE12 8LB
Received 30 Nov 2023Land off Taylors Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EN
Received 22 Aug 2017London Road Little London Spalding Lincs.
Received 21 Jul 19986 KEMP STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0HE
Received 13 Sept 2022Spalding Grammar School Priory Road Spalding
Received 18 Apr 2006THE MELROSE DOWSDALE BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TZ
Received 13 Jan 2023Jack Buck (Farms) Ltd. Green Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LT
Received 22 Dec 20208 Plank Drove Crowland PE6 0BY
Received 13 Sept 2000Land off Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 199665 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JW
Received 28 Sept 201014 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 28 Mar 2006Wheatmere Lodge Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 28 Jul 2004Records 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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