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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church Farm Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 200217 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1DQ
Received 30 Mar 2007The Green Business Park The Green Spalding
Received 17 Sept 2004Pipwell Manor Saracens Head Holbeach Spalding
Received 20 Jan 1993Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Mar 1992Parish of Lutton
Received 29 Oct 200321 CHILTERN DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DD
Received 28 Sept 2016Dorset House 33 Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel
Received 2 Nov 2006LOWGATE FARM LOWGATE ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LN
Received 24 Jul 201513 East Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EN
Received 16 Aug 1999Adjacent 434 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6DB
Received 1 Jun 201550-52 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1992Eastfields Luttongate Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QH
Received 29 Oct 20129 CARNOUSTIE CRESCENT SPALDING PE11 2SW
Received 13 Nov 2019CHARMAR CRANESGATE SOUTH WHAPLODE ST CATHERINES SPALDING PE12 6SN
Received 13 Oct 2022Cloverfield Cottage Damgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8PB
Received 28 May 2012Land off West Parade Spalding
Received 3 Feb 2003Monks House Bourne Road Spalding PE11 3LH
Received 15 Oct 2025Crawford House Thorney Road Crowland Lincs PE6 0AL
Received 26 Feb 2013Chainbridge Farmhouse Postland Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LZ
Received 18 Mar 2011THE MELROSE DOWSDALE BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TZ
Received 5 Dec 2023The Old Rectory 8 Church Street Spalding
Received 8 Jun 2005Land adj. to Leadenham House Off Eastgate Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8ND
Received 29 Nov 199123 Wrights Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RH
Received 17 Jul 2002Records 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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