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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fulney Nursery Rangell Gate Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 2001Tysdale Bungalow Common Way Tydd St Mary
Received 19 Dec 2005Carrington Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 20 Jul 2009Land adjacent 26 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 28 Oct 2003Adjacent Field View Chapelgate Sutton St James
Received 4 Jan 2008The Priory Special School Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 1992Hoyles Cottage Old Fen Dike Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 1993SILVERDALE ENGINEERING 18 HIGH STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TA
Received 24 Aug 2017Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 3 Jul 2017Holbeach George Farmer Technology College Pennyhill Road Holbeach
Received 23 Jun 2005Site at Plough Inn Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XF
Received 16 Mar 20223 THE PADDOCKS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7QY
Received 16 Nov 2020Holly Cottage, Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Sept 1994Moulton Park Bell Lane Moulton Spalding
Received 13 Jan 2025Pt OS No. 8218, Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Sept 199781 & 81A Hall Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HS
Received 1 Feb 2022Park Lane Long Sutton
Received 14 May 200427A Chapel Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AR
Received 2 Mar 200612 Princes Street Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 10 Jul 1992Molineux 32 Middle Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 29 May 2013TWO HOOTS NEW FEN DROVE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PY
Received 29 Sept 2017Chestnuts Farm Shop, Top's Gate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 1999Chestnut Farm Seas End Road Moulton
Received 4 Aug 2006Stephenson Avenue Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SW
Received 27 Nov 2008Records 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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