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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
33,283 approved · 4,022 refused · 1,220 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Sheepmarket Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Dec 199911 Sandringham Close Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE11 6UR
Received 10 Feb 2006Tesco Stores Matmore Gate Spalding PE11 2PN
Received 1 May 201429 Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HP
Received 3 Apr 2008Adjacent Bottle & Glass Broadgate Whaplode Drove
Received 1 Sept 2006Queens Road Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Feb 199717 HIGH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DU
Received 4 Apr 20161 Barbers Drove North Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 11 Dec 2009OLD VICARAGE 63 SALEM STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NQ
Received 20 May 2014Machin's Farmhouse Surfleet Bank Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DS
Received 11 Apr 2024105 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Oct 200594 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LD
Received 8 Jun 2010ALL-MAR RAVENS GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8PH
Received 2 Apr 2019Crowland Abbey East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 3 Oct 2013Northgate Mill Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 2000Hydraulic House, West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 19961 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 19962 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 May 1997Adj. 22 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TD
Received 18 Feb 2021OS 2881 Cloot Drove Crowland
Received 9 Sept 2003Greenpeace Boarding Kennels Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherine
Received 20 Sept 2007HALMER COURT 108 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2EL
Received 1 Mar 2021Old Brickyard Farmhouse Peartree House Road Penny Hill Holbeach
Received 4 Apr 2008Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BN
Received 24 Jun 2010Records 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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