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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
98 Dog Drove North Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0SA
Received 19 Jun 2025Plot 3, Monkshouse Court Monkshouse Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Oct 1993Cradge Bank Industrial Estate (Unit 1) Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 30 Apr 199731-33A High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4NW
Received 12 Feb 2025North: A17 Sutton Bridge Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 19934 Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 3JL
Received 28 Jun 199541 Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE12 2RQ
Received 4 Sept 2008DECOY FARM SPALDING ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LX
Received 23 Oct 2015The Sycamores, Westgate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1995'Headlands', Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1995Adj. to 'Elda', Churchgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1996Adj. 160 Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 1999Long Sutton Butterfly and Wildlife Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LE
Received 4 Sept 2012Jasmine Cottage Old Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 18 Jul 2005Former: Glen Farrow Premises Land off Spalding Road Pinchbeck PE11 3UE
Received 14 Jan 2019Plot 34 Riverside Park Clay Lake Lane Spalding
Received 9 Dec 2002THE LAURELS OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 2 Feb 2016189 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1HH
Received 29 Jun 201127 29 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 22 Nov 2007Adjacent The Priory Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 13 Nov 20072 SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LD
Received 29 Jul 201644 Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jan 200568 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 2001Sunningdale Nursery Gull Bank Whaplode Drove
Received 16 Sept 2004Records 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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