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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Norfolk House Farm Gedney Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jan 1997Plantation Cottage Peartree Corner Holbeach Spalding, Lincs PE12 8DL
Received 23 Jan 2002Plot 8 Enterprise Way South Holland Enterprise Park Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 2000Anton House 11 Windmill Close Holbeach
Received 20 Oct 2006Former Welland Hospital Site Holbeach Road/Roman Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 2HY
Received 11 Sept 2017Lambert House Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 1997Mulberry Barn Torrington Lane Fleet Spalding PE12 8NJ
Received 17 Jan 2019Granite House Chapelgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BJ
Received 9 May 2014Land adj 48 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 28 Dec 2022East Reach Farm Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3HJ
Received 12 Jun 1997169 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AD
Received 10 Apr 201327 West Cob Gate Moulton Spalding PE12 6QN
Received 24 Apr 2018Rear Karhill 15 Low Road Spalding
Received 9 Aug 2005Parishes of Weston and Spalding
Received 1 Jun 2007Land at Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1998Site Adj. Silverdene Boston Road Gosberton Spalding
Received 8 Aug 2025White House Farm Old Fendike Sutton St James
Received 31 Aug 2006Dovecote Farm Fen Road Donington
Received 10 Jun 2008Lloyds TSB Hall Place Spalding
Received 6 Sept 2006Sense Charity Shop 3-7 Station Street Spalding PE11 1EF
Received 14 Apr 2020Sundown 20 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UY
Received 11 Oct 2013Land at Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 200113 St Marys Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DU
Received 28 May 2019Baulkins Drove Sutton St James
Received 7 Jul 2004Records 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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