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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Peterborough Road Crowland
Received 1 May 2015The Carpenters Arms 23 South Street Crowland PE6 0AH
Received 30 Dec 2008Land adj. 19 Station Street Spalding PE11 1EB
Received 13 Jul 2022Langtoft House 57 Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AU
Received 28 Jun 2006132 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DB
Received 3 Mar 1999Existing Communications Mast Porters Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DG
Received 29 Aug 2017Unit 3, Cuckoo Farm North Drove Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 20 Feb 1997SPALDING ACADEMY SCHOOL NEVILLE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2EJ
Received 8 Oct 20204 Crispin Close Lutton Spalding PE12 9HE
Received 12 Jul 2013Land at Sutton Bridge STW Avenue Farm Road Sutton Bridge PE12 9QF
Received 8 Sept 20266 Ashwin Gate Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QG
Received 31 Jan 200636 WINDSOR DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2RP
Received 14 Dec 20203 Burtey Fen Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SR
Received 5 May 200415 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6LB
Received 30 Nov 2023Land at Back Lane Holbeach PE12 7LN
Received 2 Sept 2008Lincoln Co-operative Society Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1995Burleigh House, Burr Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jan 1996Adj The Anglia Business Centre Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PY
Received 22 Sept 2023Pudding Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 19986 West Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0ED
Received 16 Jan 2013Bank Farm Holbeach Bank Holbeach
Received 23 May 20039 Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XA
Received 3 Jun 2019Low Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BX
Received 23 Feb 1999Plot 9 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 5 Jan 2007Records 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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