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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 West Bank Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0HP
Received 11 Jun 1998Heron Orchard Caravan Park Frostley Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 13 Feb 2025The Lion, Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Aug 1996GARNSGATE HALL LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 22 Jul 2014Moulton Park Bell Lane Moulton PE12 6PQ
Received 4 Dec 2012Plots 36 & 37 Town Drove Quadring
Received 11 Sept 200163 EDINBURGH DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2SA
Received 27 Apr 2015Speechley's Yard North Street Crowland
Received 12 Jun 2025Gunthorpe Farm Gunthorpe Road Walpole Marsh Wisbech PE14 7JJ
Received 2 Aug 2013Sutton Bridge Golf Club New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RQ
Received 19 Sept 2017Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1994Memorial Hall Site Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 2001Green Lane Lodge Green Lane Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8SQ
Received 14 Feb 19922-4 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6NL
Received 27 Jul 2021"Abbey Bakery" 17/18 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Oct 1991MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS LTD VICARAGE LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AF
Received 5 Jun 2017Adjacent to 4 Clay Drove Spalding PE11 3NB
Received 3 Aug 2026Matheson House Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1998West Dale Drove Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XG
Received 24 Jun 2010Herons Cottage Caravan Site Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 27 Sept 201020 Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6ND
Received 7 Nov 2003Pennygate Foundation 204 Pennygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1LT
Received 23 May 2017Haresign Barn Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SD
Received 26 Sept 201846 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9AU
Received 9 Apr 2020Records 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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