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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
34,617 approved · 4,158 refused · 1,251 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
218 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 14 Sept 199858 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 11 Feb 200250 WOODGATE ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XF
Received 26 Apr 20162 Caythorpe Cottages Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4SB
Received 2 Dec 2015N K R Motors Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SS
Received 10 Dec 201298 London Road Spalding PE11 2TN
Received 27 Jun 2022Chestnut House North Washway Road Penny Hill Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8DN
Received 14 Mar 2011Land off Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 1995Southgate House Station Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UQ
Received 3 Jul 2013Service Yard, Winsover Centre Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 30 May 1997JANDENE TOPSGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BS
Received 3 Feb 2020Lavender Farm Shepeau Stow Crowland Peterborough PE12 0TY
Received 15 Jul 200553 Fen End Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 2004Rear of 294-300 Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 25 Nov 2002MONKTON COTTAGE CHAPEL HILL ROAD WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SJ
Received 20 Aug 2018Plot 1 South Eau Bank Gedney Hill
Received 8 Jan 2003Allotment Scoldhall Lane Gosberton
Received 20 Jun 2008Risegate House Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 26 Aug 2026Land off Backgate Cowbit PE12 6AP
Received 12 Jun 200231C Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 14 Nov 2006Ivy Cottage Jekils Bank Holbeach St John
Received 29 May 2007Ayscoughfee School Spalding PE11 2TE
Received 10 Jan 200389 Little London Spalding
Received 4 Mar 2003Tydesdale West Road Tydd Gote
Received 30 Jan 2006Records 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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