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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
32,408 approved · 3,942 refused · 1,186 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Dec 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Carrington Lodge 115 Dog Drove North Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0SA
Received 27 Feb 201363 Harvester Way Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0DG
Received 28 Nov 2002Carmel Tydd Low Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AR
Received 19 Jul 2005DECOY FARM SPALDING ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH
Received 9 Oct 202029 Welland Terrace London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 1 Apr 1997Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 1999'Rushdene' Churchgate Gedney, Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 0BZ
Received 19 Jan 2000Land at Counter Drain Drove (Between Rose Villa & Beehive Cottage) Tongue End Spalding
Received 14 Dec 2000WILLOW VILLA 10 GREEN LANE SPALDING PE11 2YB
Received 8 Feb 20249 WEST PARADE SPALDING PE11 1HD
Received 2 Oct 2014off Bette Camplings Close Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0ED
Received 2 Mar 201845 Pennygate Spalding
Received 10 Jul 2006Yew Lodge 21 High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TA
Received 20 Oct 2004The Old Farmhouse Black Hole Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QL
Received 4 Feb 2025Chapel Farm Deeping St Nicholas
Received 27 May 2008Land off Oakwood Glade and Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 12 Sept 1996Fernlea Broadgate Road Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs. PE12 0HD
Received 26 Jan 2004Off Pinstock Lane Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0BT
Received 8 Nov 2023Land at Rushmere Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UD
Received 15 Apr 20165 Church Street Spalding
Received 23 May 20072 Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 2000Edelweiss White Cross Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HZ
Received 25 Feb 2013Adjacent to 26 West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 15 Apr 2024LOWFIELDS FARM FULNEY DROVE SPALDING PE12 6BW
Received 10 Jun 2016Records 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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