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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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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.
Plot adjacent: 'Wembley House' Lowgate Tydd St Mary PE13 5PF
Received 26 Jan 2009Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 15 Mar 2004White Home Farm, Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1996The Cottage, High Fen Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1997IRBY HOUSE MILLGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING
Received 28 Jul 2016Plot at Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 19 Nov 1998Fairview Farm 19 Mill Drove Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AS
Received 9 Dec 199474 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LD
Received 16 Sept 2026E M Cole Farms Ltd Small Drove Lane Pinchbeck SPALDING PE11 3NL
Received 27 Jul 2016Holly Tree House Weston Hills Road B1165 Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 2010Adj. Chestnut House Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HD
Received 28 Sept 20224 Apeldoorn Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1JT
Received 3 Feb 19997 East Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EN
Received 11 Jul 2006Bridge Farm, Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NJ
Received 20 Mar 1995Broadgate House Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 2001Part garden to No 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6DQ
Received 21 May 1992Land Adjacent 1 Brayfields Pinchbeck
Received 20 Sept 2006TYSDALE MANOR COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY WISBECH PE13 5QH
Received 24 Nov 2025Mayfield Rest Home Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AG
Received 8 May 1997171 Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4EU
Received 17 Aug 2004Russell Lodge Cranesgate South Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 2000Roman Bank Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 1995Barn Watergate Quadring Eaudyke Spalding PE11 4PZ
Received 17 Mar 201625 Batemans Close Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BY
Received 15 Sept 1994Records 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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