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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
30,208 approved · 3,779 refused · 1,097 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Hall Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EW
Received 3 Aug 2004Holly Cottage Old Fen Dyke Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jul 200049 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JJ
Received 28 Nov 2013Former Finning Site Westlode Street Spalding
Received 7 Nov 2006Station Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BP
Received 10 Jul 2019MAYFLOWER FARM TYDD ROAD WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QA
Received 8 May 2024Off Roman Bank Road Lutton Gowts
Received 2 Apr 2002Land off Penny Hill Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DN
Received 19 Mar 202175 High Street Gosberton
Received 29 Aug 20035 BITTERN CLOSE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6XU
Received 16 Jul 2024MANOR FARM MARSH ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING
Received 29 Oct 2018Land at Harrington Way Crowland PE6 0AU
Received 7 Nov 2018Poplar Farm Old Fendike Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0ND
Received 26 May 2010Holly Lodge 114 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HJ
Received 15 Mar 201743 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 19 Aug 201566 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HH
Received 24 Feb 20213 Beccelm Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AG
Received 10 Jul 2001Spalding News 24 Market Place Spalding PE11 1SS
Received 28 Feb 2025Ball Hall Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HE
Received 1 Sept 2011Ye Olde Dun Cow Public House Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 10 Jul 1998Marshalls Yard Luttongate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QH
Received 21 Oct 201012-14 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7LW
Received 16 Jul 201552 - 54 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 6 Aug 20076 High Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TA
Received 1 Apr 2005Records 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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