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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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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 Adjacent A151, Food Enterprise Zone Holbeach Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2020Part OS 1400, Willow Farm Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 26 Jan 1994ALTBROOK RAVENS BANK GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 8RB
Received 21 May 2015Plot 3A Edison Court South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding
Received 26 Mar 2001Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1994Trevethoe Farm Cottage Lapwater Lane Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8EX
Received 7 May 2026Parklands Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding, Lincs
Received 22 Oct 1992Mouse Cottage Lowgate Fleet
Received 12 May 2005Sutton Bridge Solar Farm Land to the South of Centenary Way Sutton Bridge PE12 9TF
Received 19 Dec 2024Crowland Water Tower Crowland
Received 12 Jan 2006Bromleys Barn 129 Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TD
Received 14 Aug 2009NOVO COSMETICS CHURCH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LL
Received 10 May 2024Rowan House Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QA
Received 7 Feb 2006The Cottage Chopdyke Drove Gosberton Clough
Received 12 Feb 200210 Grange Farm Cottage Hospital Road Wingland Sutton Bridge
Received 1 Jul 2008The Wheelhouse Hallgate Fleet PE12 8NG
Received 17 Sept 2012Cherry Tree Cottage Cherry Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 3 Jun 1997Westdale Cottage Westdale Drove Donington
Received 12 Nov 2007Plot at Middle Lane Whaplode
Received 12 Sept 2003Adjacent to 12 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4ND
Received 4 Aug 2014Holbeach United Community Sports Academy Penny Hill Road Tolls Lane Holbeach PE12 7PR
Received 9 May 202325 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 2002Eight Horse Barn Money Bridge Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SB
Received 5 Dec 2024'All Plants Plus' Nursery Gosberton Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 1995Records 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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