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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Field Adjacent: Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland PE6 0LX
Received 18 Oct 2017Crowland Cranes Ltd Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BN
Received 8 May 2012Fresh Fields Pipwell Gate Saracens Head Spalding, Lincs. PE12 8BA
Received 25 Sept 2003East Bank Lighthouse East Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9YT
Received 29 May 2013Land off Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Feb 202445 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 17 Jul 2014CHERRY FARM BLAZEGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0AD
Received 27 Jul 2015Land Opposite: 233 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6DQ
Received 28 Dec 2018Red Lodge Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 1993Old Fendike Road Weston Hills
Received 12 Jun 2003Caravan 68 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 6 Jun 2024Lambert Farm Cottage Lambert Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 22 Nov 2001Plot 2, Cross Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 1997Unit 2, Cuckoo Farm North Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 1998Church House 36 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 14 Jul 2016Holbeach Manor Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AX
Received 23 Apr 1993WHITE HOUSE FARM SARAHGATE LANE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QE
Received 16 Aug 201811-13 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 31 Oct 2006678 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JA
Received 15 May 201312 Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LR
Received 18 Jan 2012Keswick Pinstock Lane Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BT
Received 1 Dec 2006Rear of 11 West Cob Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QN
Received 30 Apr 2015Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 2003Gosberton Food Park Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 5 Dec 1996Records 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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