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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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68 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LL
Received 5 Sept 2013Wygate Park Spalding
Received 11 Sept 1995Melrose Cotage Roman Bank Holbeach Bank
Received 12 Sept 200530 FEN GATE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XL
Received 11 Jan 2017THE OLD CHAPEL MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RR
Received 1 Mar 2022Church Walk Holbeach
Received 4 Jun 2003Adj. Fairfields, Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Jan 2000Land off Millers Rest Whaplode
Received 14 Feb 2007Wygate Park (Phase 4B) Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Aug 199361 BROADGATE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TN
Received 5 Aug 2019Red Lion Public House Hillgate Gedney Hill
Received 19 May 2003Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen South Holland and Boston Lincolnshire
Received 10 Jun 2025Unit 4 Holland Market Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Aug 1996Woodbyne House Main Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8DZ
Received 4 Feb 2008ST MARY MAGDALENES CHURCH CHURCH END FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NQ
Received 28 Sept 2021Fen Road Garage Fen Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 24 Feb 1993Plot 3 Roman Bank Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1999STEVEDON CATTERY STEVEDON HOUSE SWINDLERS DROVE SPALDING PE12 6BS
Received 2 Aug 2021GMK Panic Link Ltd 107 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3LJ
Received 3 Mar 20154 Grange Farm Cocklehole Road Terrington St Clement PE34 4HH
Received 27 Mar 2026Derelict Cottage Gosberton Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Nov 1995Spalding Gentlemans Society 9a Broad Street Spalding PE11 1TB
Received 11 Mar 2025The Plough Inn Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 199842-44 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 28 Feb 2002Records 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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