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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35,506 approved · 4,264 refused · 1,285 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 CHURCH LANE CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ER
Received 17 Sept 2018Clay Lake Spalding
Received 8 May 2002Dog Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 11 Jun 2002Former Bakehouse 1A Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BH
Received 27 Mar 2014Cordon Villa 24 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 23 Dec 2022The Black Bull 7 Market Place Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Sept 1998ANNEXE MERCIA LODGE 65 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 19 May 2022Rose Cottage 98 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 16 Jul 2009PREMIER NEWSAGENTS 88 LITTLE LONDON SPALDING PE11 2UJ
Received 6 Jul 2015Adj. Rylton House Mill Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UE
Received 3 Mar 2022Lloyds Bank Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1999Linmay Nealsgate Holbeach St Johns
Received 13 Jul 2005Former T J Steakhouse Adjacent Deep Dene Spalding Road Gosberton
Received 18 Mar 2008West Drove South Gedney Hill PE12 0PL
Received 27 Feb 2009CRIMOND HEDGEFIELD HURN GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JE
Received 6 Jan 2021Land west of Woolram Wyate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 1993128 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Dec 2004Nene Terrace Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0LD
Received 17 Jan 2006Adjacent Ravensbush Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine
Received 2 Dec 2004CHURCH VIEW 87 HIGH ROAD WESTON SPALDING PE12 6RA
Received 13 Aug 201870 Halmergate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EQ
Received 3 Mar 2008Land at 79 83B Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 8 Feb 2002The Cottage Acre Hill Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 24 Feb 1998Whaplode Village Hall Kirkgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 28 Aug 2013Records 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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