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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holly Cottage Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding
Received 2 Jan 2007Moorside The Delph Long Sutton Lincs
Received 21 Jul 2000The Bell Inn High Street Gosberton
Received 23 Aug 1994Queen Inn 49 Station Street Donington Spalding
Received 29 Oct 2013North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NX
Received 2 Jun 201099 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Aug 1994Further Old Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8QE
Received 20 Mar 2018Plot 4 Edison Court Enterprise Way Spalding
Received 9 Jun 2005The Forge Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PD
Received 11 Dec 2020Land off Draw Dike Sutton St James
Received 3 Oct 200210 Plank Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BY
Received 19 Jan 1994White Cottage High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TJ
Received 30 Sept 2004BROAD STREET BUSINESS CENTRE 10 BROAD STREET SPALDING
Received 27 Feb 2018Council Offices Priory Road Spalding PE11 2XE
Received 12 Jan 2017BANK HOUSE FARM COOKS ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PD
Received 2 Mar 2017Rear of 2 Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UF
Received 1 Sept 2022CHURCH HOUSE 36 CHURCH STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UA
Received 4 Aug 2016Nene Terrace Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LD
Received 1 May 20016A Herring Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 1TL
Received 29 Aug 2008THE OLD VICARAGE CHURCH STREET GEDNEY DAWSMERE SPALDING PE12 9NL
Received 23 Oct 2014Angels Meadow, Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 2000Land off Wintergold Avenue Wygate Park Spalding
Received 29 Apr 200220 Maple Grove Spalding Lincs PE11 2LE
Received 1 May 19952 GREENRIGG GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2BP
Received 17 Apr 2023Records 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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