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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Corbyn Lodge Nealsgate Road Fleet Fen
Received 23 Oct 200164 High Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NJ
Received 30 Nov 2012Hurdletree Nurseries Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherine
Received 20 Dec 2001The Walnuts 23 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TD
Received 9 Jan 200758/60 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Feb 1999Wyevale Garden Centre Postland Road Crowland
Received 22 Aug 2005126 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SJ
Received 3 Aug 2018Poplar Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4LY
Received 3 Oct 1991Flaxmill House 12 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 17 Mar 2010Linden House Church Gate Gedney
Received 13 May 20034 High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TW
Received 29 May 2009Stukeley Hall Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jun 1992Pulvertoft Hall Gedney Broadgate Spalding
Received 4 Mar 2011Bank Farm Holbeach Bank
Received 9 Sept 2002Church Gate Gedney
Received 11 Feb 200538 FRENCH DROVE THORNEY PETERBOROUGH PE6 0PE
Received 21 Mar 2017205 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Oct 1997The Mill Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PW
Received 14 Aug 2009120 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SJ
Received 28 Aug 2024Site Adj. 93 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JU
Received 14 Mar 2019George Barnsdale and Sons Limited 24 and 30 High Street Donington Spalding PE11 4TA
Received 28 Jan 2014Land off Willow Close Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 15 Jul 2005Kingsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 1995Bungalow, Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jun 1997Records 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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