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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bank House Farm 5 Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PE
Received 1 Nov 20121A East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 4 Jul 2007Horseshoe Farm Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 27 Jan 2006Windcatch Caravan Park Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EH
Received 8 Nov 201137 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 13 Aug 2014FORMER NATWEST BANK 20 WEST END HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7YY
Received 26 Oct 2015Land rear of Sutton Bridge Motor Co. 33 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 6 Mar 1998Heatherdown Elm Lane Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6EQ
Received 3 Sept 2007Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding
Received 29 Nov 2011Aldi Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AG
Received 7 Feb 202451 West Elloe Avenue Spalding
Received 7 Nov 20035 BULL ROW OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 9 Apr 2014East Reach House Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 19935 Puddingpoke Lane Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HZ
Received 17 Mar 2005Sunrise Ravens Bank Holbeach Fen
Received 9 May 20081 Broome Way Holbeach
Received 4 Mar 2002Land to South West of Lundys Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 28 May 2012Adj. 43 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding
Received 1 Aug 2025The Old Three Tuns Clough Road Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 2000SPAR SHOP 7 NORTH STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0EG
Received 7 May 2015Camel Gate Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6ES
Received 16 Dec 2003Foremans Bridge Caravan Park Sutton Road Sutton St James
Received 23 Oct 2008St Nicholas House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas
Received 30 Oct 2003WESTWAIZE LANGARY GATE ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0RU
Received 16 Aug 2022Records 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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