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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
35,506 approved · 4,264 refused · 1,285 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
'The Red House' 97 High Street Gosberton PE11 4NW
Received 24 Apr 200974 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 5 Nov 2021Deeping Farm Deeping Fen Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 2000109 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UE
Received 22 Apr 2009Albert Street Holbeach
Received 8 Aug 2005Glen Park Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DB
Received 5 Jul 2010Land East of Surfleet Bank and West of Woad Farm Surfleet Spalding
Received 5 Dec 2023Laurel Lodge Farm Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JB
Received 10 Feb 2023Phase 3, Off Royce Road Spalding Lincs (Site B)
Received 28 Apr 199347 Millfield Gardens Crowland Spalding Lincs PE6 0HA
Received 4 Feb 1997The Curry Inn 128 Main Road Quadring
Received 18 Jan 2008East Bank Farm Garners Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9YP
Received 23 Aug 200511 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 16 Jan 2006Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Aug 1996121 Balmoral Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2RP
Received 24 Jun 1997Former: Plough Inn Public House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EN
Received 6 Mar 2018Springfields Festival Gardens and Outlet Centre Camel Gate Spalding
Received 31 Jan 2008Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 1993Plot 2, The Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 1995Land between Ryefield Lane and Ravens Drove Holbeach Fen
Received 10 Feb 2004Plot 4 Park Close Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jul 1999Pinchbeck Football Club Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RB
Received 2 Feb 2017Off Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding, Lincs
Received 26 Apr 1999St Martin Vestment Ltd Lutton Bank Lutton
Received 3 Apr 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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