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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 off Hix's Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 12 Jan 1996Part of Former Turkey Factory Clay Lake Spalding Lincs PE12 6BL
Received 10 Feb 202097 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 26 Apr 2006Caudwell Farm Eastern Road Holbeach St Matthews Spalding PE12 8EW
Received 25 Jun 2013Land at Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 16 Sept 2005Site rear: 100 London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9ED
Received 26 Feb 2018Fulney Farm Centre Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6EW
Received 22 Sept 200960 Halmergate Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 2006Land between Marsh Rd/Low Rd Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8JT
Received 13 Nov 1991Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jan 200132 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 200259 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NJ
Received 28 Sept 2004Hallgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Aug 199222a Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6ND
Received 11 Nov 2013126 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 1997Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 1997Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XJ
Received 25 Aug 2016Land off Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 15 Jan 2025Off Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 25 Jun 2007George Farmer CS School Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Apr 1993Sandygate Farm House Sandygate Sutton St James, Spalding Lincs, PE12 0HG
Received 24 Apr 199515 NEW ROAD SPALDING
Received 8 Jan 20161 High Street Donington PE11 4TA
Received 31 Mar 2010Plots 6 - 118 Foxes Lowe Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 5 Sept 2000Records 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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