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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bridge House Farm Gosberton Bank Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1996New Saracens Head PH Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8AY
Received 11 Jun 2021Wardentree Park Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 2000Small Acres Old Gate Cranmore Lane Holbeach PE12 7JG
Received 16 Jul 201346A Church Street Holbeach
Received 20 Nov 2003Adj. 7 Barbers Drove South Crowland PE6 0EY
Received 2 Sept 2020Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8QD
Received 27 Nov 2002MILLFIELD NURSERIES MILL LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PW
Received 28 Sept 2020East of Proudfoot Lane and South of the Rectory Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 2019NORTHGATE FARMHOUSE NORTHGATE WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TB
Received 5 Aug 2021Cobgate Farm Centre West Cobgate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QW
Received 8 Feb 2001Crowtree Farm Barns White Cross Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AJ
Received 31 Jan 2020Fleet Infirmary Building Holbeach House Nursing Home Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 6 Oct 1992Sunrise Nursery, Kingsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Oct 1997DECOY FARM FEN GATE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XL
Received 17 Dec 2015THE STATION HOUSE 4 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 12 Jul 2019Northcote Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 199335 Exeter Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2DY
Received 24 Apr 2009Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LX
Received 9 May 2016Holmleigh Lowgate Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5PF
Received 30 Jun 2011Woodhouse Lane Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 1994Park House Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UJ
Received 7 Jan 2003Fenland House 39-41 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 199164 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HQ
Received 29 Dec 2011Records 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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