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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
37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 29 May 1998Adj. 49 Langwith Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Mar 2000Land East of Normanton Road Crowland
Received 2 Sept 202623 Lowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4NL
Received 23 Nov 1999Adjacent to 46 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BT
Received 5 Jan 2016WYVALE GARDEN CENTRES LTD POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0JB
Received 21 Aug 2017Crowhill Farm Pipwell Gate Saracens Head
Received 5 Dec 2008Cradge Bank Road Little London Spalding
Received 28 Mar 1994Tulip Academy Spalding - Waterside Campus Neville Avenue Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2EH
Received 16 Feb 202466 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9UA
Received 11 Apr 2023RANBYS CORNER 26 CHAPEL STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AR
Received 15 Apr 2024Land adjacent 63 Backgate Cowbit PE12 6AP
Received 30 Jul 2002Campains Lane Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3EX
Received 20 Jun 1996Lark Rise Marsh Road Holbeach PE12 8JT
Received 9 Sept 2019Land North West of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 28 Mar 2022Rear of 23 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Apr 1996Park Lane House 5 Park Lane Donington SPALDING PE11 4UE
Received 28 Oct 2016Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 199831 Fairview Way Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Mar 1994land in vacinity of Yellow House Long Sutton
Received 16 Dec 2002Land off Thary Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 3 Oct 202445 Helmsley Way Spalding Lincs PE12 6BG
Received 30 Sept 1994No 8 Plank Drove Crowland Lincs PE6 0BY
Received 8 Jul 1999Walnut Cottage Luttongate Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QJ
Received 21 Sept 2012Records 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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