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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land between 2 & 6 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1998Unit 25 - Factory Outlet Springfields Outlet Centre Camel Gate SPALDING PE12 6EU
Received 8 May 2017Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Aug 1998YEW TREE HOUSE 1 HALL DRIVE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4LX
Received 31 Jan 2019Braemar Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 4 May 2004St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 2008219 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NX
Received 20 Jul 2007Homebase Westlode Street Spalding
Received 11 Sept 2006Land west of Woolram Wygate (known as Wygate Park - adjacent to Phase 7A) Spalding
Received 22 Apr 19973 Henrietta Street Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Sept 2006Adjacent: 62 Water Gate Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PY
Received 8 Dec 2017Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding, Lincs
Received 6 Apr 1999Rosedene Cross Drove Gedney Hill
Received 1 Jun 2007THE COTTAGE 18 SCHOOL LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HW
Received 1 Jun 2018Hawthorn Cottage Walnut Tree Nursery Glenside North Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SD
Received 28 Sept 2018Rookery Farm Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 16 Oct 2006Former Agricultural Building Jasmine Crescent Holbeach Spalding
Received 14 Aug 2025104 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PD
Received 19 Jul 2004Sutton Bridge Marina West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 26 Jan 2012Plot adj. The Plough Inn Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Sept 1993'Principle House' Clarks Hill Gedney PE12 0DQ
Received 9 Jan 200932 Sorrell Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3GN
Received 5 Mar 2002FARMLANDS LODGE 175 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TJ
Received 21 Mar 2016The Woodlands Boston Road Gosberton
Received 8 Jun 2007Records 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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