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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
GEDNEY DYKE VILLAGE HALL MAIN STREET GEDNEY DYKE SPALDING PE12 0AJ
Received 1 Jun 2022Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Oct 1997Land off Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen
Received 15 Jun 2006George Farmer Technology College Park Road Holbeach
Received 12 Apr 2006Chaucers Way Spalding
Received 22 Oct 2003Guttridge Services Ltd Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 22 Aug 20058 The Crescent Spalding PE11 1AE
Received 25 May 2012Nene Terrace Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0LD
Received 14 Nov 2005Gleed Girls GM School Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jul 1999Adj. 128 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 1 Aug 2024Whittington House Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BZ
Received 14 Jan 20114 VICTORIA MEWS SPALDING PE11 1XL
Received 1 May 2024309 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SL
Received 30 Jan 200714 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 199919 Green Lane Spalding PE11 2YD
Received 14 Nov 2017Land off Fleet Road Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jul 1993Otway House Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 26 Jun 2003Adjacent: 14 Washway Road Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 1992Albert Walk Holbeach
Received 4 Feb 20042 MIMOSA COTTAGE STATION ROAD GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0DD
Received 21 May 202187 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6HY
Received 26 Jan 2015Broadgate Stables Broadgate Road Sutton St James
Received 31 Aug 2004Rear of 147 Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 2UN
Received 23 Aug 2022The Beeches 41a Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 15 Dec 2025Records 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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