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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Harvest Lodge and Sycamore View Station Road Gedney Hill, Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 7 Jul 2015East of The Priory West End Holbeach PE12 7HA
Received 30 Jul 2012Low Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Nov 1993Vine House Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3DG
Received 4 Nov 2011BRANDONS POULTRY DEEPING FARM MAIN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS PE11 3BW
Received 12 Oct 2017Cowley & Brown C P School Quadring
Received 22 Jun 1995147 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EF
Received 22 Nov 202344 and 44a High Street Holbeach
Received 20 Oct 200437 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 18 Aug 2020Enterprise Way Enterprise Park Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 199823 BRITANNIA GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1YE
Received 14 Jul 2021Land: Six House Bank West Pincheck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 1992THE BLACK SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE 12 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DQ
Received 29 Jul 2019THE CHEQUERS 3 MAIN STREET GEDNEY DYKE SPALDING PE12 0AJ
Received 26 Feb 202177 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BU
Received 10 Apr 2007126A & B Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 Feb 200045 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JN
Received 11 Oct 201137 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LE
Received 12 Oct 2015Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 2000Poplar Farm Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 May 199716 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs
Received 24 Aug 1993Welland House Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 1993Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding
Received 18 Jun 2001Five Spires Lowgate Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0BB
Received 8 May 2017Records 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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