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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 16 Mar 1992HOLMFIELD HOUSE 12 STATION STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UQ
Received 11 Mar 2016Land adj. Eastgate House Eastgate Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jul 1995Land off Broadway Holland Park Spalding
Received 17 Jul 2001Geest Prepared Foods West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 14 Feb 2002Camel Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Nov 1994Church End Gedney
Received 10 Jan 200510 Cranesgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jan 200477 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 0TN
Received 24 Feb 1998Top Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 199759 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AQ
Received 26 Aug 2021OS 1349, Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Gedney Spalding, Lincs
Received 18 Sept 1992Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Aug 2018Land off Balmoral Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 26 Mar 201511 BRANCHES LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BE
Received 5 Feb 2016Chalk Lane Langley Park Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Dec 20014 Sluice Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8BH
Received 7 Sept 2011Elsom House Broad Street Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Aug 1993Stable Outbuilding Westview Farm Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 6LS
Received 24 Mar 2011Sluice Farm Abingdon Works Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks PE12 8HF
Received 12 Jun 201831A Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1994Former Warehouse Site Princes Street Sutton Bridge
Received 24 Oct 2003Adj. 31 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Dec 1999Land to West of Woolram Wygate Wygate Park (Phase 8B) Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Apr 1999Records 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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