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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 30 Jun 1997Land off Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 2 Jan 2001West Virginia Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1993St James Farm Postland Crowland
Received 7 Jul 1994The Gables Camelgate Spalding
Received 18 Aug 20041 Middle Crown Farm Grange Road Terrington St Clement Kings Lynn Norfolk
Received 17 Jan 1997Church Street Donington Spalding, Lincs
Received 24 Mar 1999Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Sept 2026Land off Church Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Apr 200080 Boston Road Holbeach
Received 24 Nov 2005Land off Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PN
Received 15 Jul 201327 Church Lane Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ER
Received 22 Nov 2000AYSCOUGHFEE HALL CHURCH GATE SPALDING PE11 2RA
Received 10 Feb 2015Blue Arrow 1 New Road Spalding
Received 7 Feb 2008The Lincolnshire Poacher Public House 1 Double Street Spalding
Received 22 Apr 2003Cowley Road Donington
Received 5 Nov 2004Walnut Cottage South Drove Quadring Fen
Received 28 Jul 2004Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Apr 2013Hallgate House Kingsgate Gedney Spalding, Lincs
Received 29 Apr 1993CHAPEL END SCHOOL HOUSE 226 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 3 May 2023O A Taylor Sons Ltd Washway House Farm Washway Road Holbeach
Received 12 Oct 2007The Old Granary Bull Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 25 Aug 1992The Old Ship Inn Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JL
Received 16 Jun 2015Whitwell Lodge Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding
Received 1 Jun 1998Records 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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