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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
31,514 approved · 3,861 refused · 1,140 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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35 PETERBOROUGH ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BB
Received 12 Sept 2018Roman Lodge Mill Lane Tydd St Mary
Received 17 Sept 20086 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 11 Aug 2010Bramhall Stockhouse Lane Surfleet
Received 28 Sept 2001Rear of 210 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9QE
Received 16 Apr 20251 Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Nov 2005Blue Bell Cottage Sarahgate Lane Quadring Spalding PE11 4QE
Received 24 Feb 2025Land off Scalesgate Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 18 Jan 2022Land off Hereward Way Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BL
Received 7 Sept 2022Off High Road Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JU
Received 19 Feb 201944 and 46 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EF
Received 25 Apr 2013Rathkenny Close Off Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 26 Apr 20112 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TB
Received 1 Jun 2022Ravensgate Nursery Ravensgate Holbeach St John
Received 12 Jun 2003108 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RQ
Received 4 May 201015A Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Nov 1997Rear garden: 18 London Road Spalding
Received 1 Oct 2014Whaplode C of E Primary Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 18 Jun 2004Plot 36 Town Drove Quadring
Received 13 Mar 20027 Crawford Gardens Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AZ
Received 8 Mar 2019Land Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 6 Sept 2004Rear of 28 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 31 Aug 2000Bank House Farm 5 Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PE
Received 22 Aug 2012South Holland Centre 23 Market Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SS
Received 11 Oct 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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