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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greendyke Farm Greendyke Lane Tydd St Mary
Received 21 Mar 2001Bromleys Woodbine Farm Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck
Received 2 Oct 2003Adj. to 'Sunella' Bells Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JG
Received 16 Jun 1998Oakdene Hazelwood Lane Fleet
Received 12 Jan 2007Revills Jewellers 12 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1998The Ship Albion Public House 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 5 Jun 2009Land to the East of Church Lane Moulton Spalding PE12 6NP
Received 5 Mar 2026Holland Park Off Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Feb 1999Beech House 16 Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QG
Received 22 Oct 202628 Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Aug 1996LAKESIDE HOUSE FARM TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QP
Received 25 Aug 2015Park Road Spalding
Received 11 Sept 2006Barrow Pier Hall Farm Cheal Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding
Received 4 Sept 199211 South Street Crowland PE6 0AH
Received 22 Mar 200144 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 1993Beverage House Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9NW
Received 28 May 2009127 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 1998Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 29 Dec 199814 WINDSOR GARDENS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DY
Received 25 Feb 2020Land at corner Barrs Lane/Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PX
Received 20 Sept 2013Bullocks Short Gate Gedney Broadgate Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 10 May 2022MOORLANDS BROADGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0DG
Received 5 Aug 2019New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 14 Mar 2003140 HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING PE12 6ER
Received 17 Jun 2014Records 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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