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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
35,879 approved · 4,321 refused · 1,302 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Rear of 71 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 23 Sept 1997Land off Beaufort Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jun 199937 Welbeck Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1PD
Received 6 Mar 2008Hillside Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NP
Received 5 May 201119 St Guthlacs Close Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0ES
Received 7 Mar 2006289 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 13 Jun 2005Off Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Nov 200010/12 Clay Lake Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1993Pinchbeck Industrial Estate Wardentree Park Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 22 May 2025Trinity Court and West Street Crowland Lincs
Received 19 Jul 1999Vernatts Bungalow Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End
Received 16 Mar 2007Land at Priory Road - Foundry Lane - Drapers Place and Abbey Yard Spalding
Received 16 Apr 2003Land at Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PA
Received 4 Mar 20191 Station Cottage Station Approach Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UJ
Received 13 Sept 199417 Trafalgar Square Long Sutton
Received 17 Dec 2001Combiflora Premises Wardentree Lane Industrial Est Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 1995Marsh Road Wykeham
Received 9 Nov 2004The Fraiser Room Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 24 Sept 2012Grange Farm Hundred Fen Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 2000Plot 2, Westbourne Gardens (Off Cowbit Road) Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 1996Land Rear of 75 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 18 Dec 2020Plot 2 Bakers Land Belchmire Lane Gosberton
Received 13 May 2002Rear of 14 Market Place Spalding PE11 1SL
Received 13 Jul 2023Land between 61-71 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DQ
Received 26 Mar 2019Records 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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