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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Elsoms Way Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3JG
Received 8 Aug 2025Off Jekils Bank Holbeach St. Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 2001BROADGATE HOUSE 696 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JA
Received 20 Mar 20173 SUNNINGDALE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2SP
Received 10 May 201838 The Tilney Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Sept 200266 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9BT
Received 7 Aug 2026Sterling House 85 St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 17 Jan 2008TEREMOK STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 17 Feb 20223 Harrington Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AT
Received 9 Jan 2004Land adjacent Barrier Bank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Oct 20175 Arnhem Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1PH
Received 18 Nov 2010Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 20 May 199244 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Jul 1998Land east of Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 3 Mar 20171 ST GUTHLACS CLOSE CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ES
Received 26 Oct 2015Plot 6 Enterprise Way Spalding
Received 18 Jul 2002Plot adjacent 39 Broadgate Whaplode Drove
Received 14 Jun 2004St Marys CofE Primary School Barrier Bank Cowbit
Received 13 Dec 2002Pilmore House Pilmore Lane Low Fulney Spalding
Received 5 May 2004Former Travis Perkins Unit Wardentree Park Wardentree Lane Spalding
Received 13 May 2021Stephenson Avenue South Holland Enterprise Park Pinchbeck
Received 4 Oct 20055 BEECHFIELD GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1UN
Received 1 Jun 202311 ST ANDREWS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2SH
Received 19 Nov 2024Corner Farm Banks Drove Pode Hole Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3BJ
Received 16 Nov 1998Records 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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