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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Parklands Nursing Home Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding, Lincs
Received 27 Oct 1994Beverage House Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9NW
Received 9 Aug 2005Sycamore House 1 Sycamore View Gedney Hill Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0NQ
Received 19 Mar 2003Orchard View Caravan Camping Park 102 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund
Received 31 Aug 2005Curlew Lodge Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge
Received 27 May 2011Nods Nook Barn Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow
Received 20 May 20055 Pinfold Lane Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 2006Adjacent 14 Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas
Received 10 Oct 2008100 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TN
Received 27 Aug 2020Greenfold Church Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QY
Received 17 Jan 200552 Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1995School Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Sept 1996CLEAR VIEW KING JOHN BANK WALPOLE ST ANDREW WISBECH PE14 7JT
Received 17 Dec 2014Russell Le Chocolatier 15 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 201226 West Bank Crowland PE6 0HP
Received 6 Jul 2022St Thomas Road and Welland Close Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2006120 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 2002Kellett Gate Low Fulney Spalding
Received 19 Oct 2004Former British Sugar Factory West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 10 Dec 2001Land adjacent: Tilsons Yard Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PA
Received 7 Aug 2019White Cross Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4AL
Received 17 Oct 1996Land Off Lapwater Lane Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 1995Washway House Farm Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Sept 1998Beeson House Bell Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PQ
Received 11 Nov 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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