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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 9 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 adjacent to Home Farm Millgate Whaplode Fen
Received 21 May 2003'Angels Keep' Kingsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0FG
Received 26 May 2009New House Lowgate Gedney
Received 28 Mar 2003Dunster Farm House Beck Bank Gosberton Clough PE11 4LE
Received 19 Jun 200725 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1XG
Received 5 Mar 1992Parkside Crescent Park Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1RA
Received 12 Feb 2019Rear of Fen Willow 23 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TD
Received 30 Nov 2015Eaudyke Farm Cottage Watergate Quadring Eaudyke Spalding, Kent. PE11 4QB
Received 23 Jul 20032 and 3 Glen Avenue Spalding
Received 21 Dec 2006West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2AB
Received 7 Mar 20038 Harrox Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jun 1997Woodwards Lane Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jan 1996Double Street (Former Loughborough Motors Site) Spalding
Received 6 Mar 1997Magellan Way Spalding
Received 15 Dec 2005Cottages at Glenside North Money Bridge Pinchbeck West Spalding
Received 25 Feb 1997Moss Cottage, Hop Hole Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 19976 Captains Beck Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3US
Received 7 Jul 2004Unit 5, Holland Market Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Nov 1996PASTURE FARM WESTDALE DROVE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XG
Received 23 Nov 2020The Cottage, Bresby House New Road Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs.
Received 9 Sept 1992Puddingpoke Lane Lutton
Received 20 Nov 2002Land between 7-9 Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XA
Received 11 Apr 2016Park Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 1993Adjacent to "Half Acre" Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 2001Records 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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