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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adj: Willow House Church End Gedney SPALDING PE12 0BU
Received 7 Jun 2017Cloverley 25 Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NN
Received 23 Jun 2004Fulney Playing Field Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 200910 Highgrove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs, PE12 9ER
Received 8 Jun 1995High Street Spalding
Received 31 Oct 2007WOOL HALL FARM CROSS GATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6HW
Received 29 Apr 2015Unit 19 Springfields Outlet Centre Spalding
Received 19 Jan 200443 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7JA
Received 30 Mar 2010White Gables Old Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 29 Jul 20042 OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 21 Mar 201411-13 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 10 Aug 20051A Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding PE11 4LX
Received 9 Feb 2024Elsom House 1 Broad Street Spalding
Received 3 Oct 2006Plot adjacent to White House Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 2000Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1PB
Received 4 Jun 1993Adj. 10 Harrington Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AT
Received 11 Feb 2022'The Gatehouse' Northgate Gosberton PE11 4LJ
Received 2 Mar 2009Whaplode Manor Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 199547 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate
Received 26 Nov 20049 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1993The Walnuts 23 Quadring Road Donington
Received 24 Oct 2006West View Farm Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding PE12 6LW
Received 17 Aug 2026120 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4SJ
Received 16 Dec 2008Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jul 1996Records 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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