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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
34,076 approved · 4,104 refused · 1,236 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent 2 Croyland Way Crowland PE6 0NA
Received 6 Mar 2007Mill View Off Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 5 Dec 2017Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 199638 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EP
Received 7 Sept 2007Land at Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AA
Received 16 Aug 2012Pinchbeck Bars Post Office 111 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QG
Received 20 May 2010The Woodlands Boston Road Gosberton
Received 29 Jun 200732 Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AJ
Received 8 Jun 2005571 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 200358 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YA
Received 15 Oct 2018Cressy Hall Farm Barns Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4JD
Received 19 Apr 20169 Campbells Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2UH
Received 13 Jul 2004Crown Farm Stockwell Gate Whaplode
Received 21 Nov 2008Pinnacle Close Industrial Units Crowland Peterborough PE6 0GB
Received 11 Apr 20249 Girdlestone Walk Crowland PE6 0AF
Received 5 Feb 20261 and 2 Welland Court Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AB
Received 15 Feb 2013Land adjacent 202 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PB
Received 29 Jun 2009The Black Swan Public House 12 New Road Spalding
Received 18 Oct 200788 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 8 Dec 2004Landell House Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 6LW
Received 12 Dec 2002WESTBOURNE LODGE 13 COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RD
Received 7 Jan 2025DEVON COTTAGE LUTTON BANK LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LJ
Received 11 Mar 202176 COBGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UL
Received 24 Mar 2015The Old School Postland Road Crowland
Received 2 Nov 2017Records 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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