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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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear of War Memorial Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 17 Apr 2025Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 10 Dec 1992Land Opposite Sunrise Spendlas Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AP
Received 17 Nov 202119 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 19976 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PS
Received 28 Dec 201244 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AJ
Received 12 Jul 2021Wilkinson Store Unit 1, Holland Market Spalding
Received 28 Jul 200411A Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JW
Received 25 May 2005Land Rear of 17 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NP
Received 10 Jan 202226 Roman Bank Spalding
Received 13 Aug 2002Pumping Station Mill Drove South Cowbit Spalding
Received 12 Dec 2024HAMPSONS CAR HIRE BERVOR CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3FZ
Received 25 Aug 2016Plots 28, 29, 30, 37 & 38 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7GA
Received 11 Jun 201947 Tollgate Spalding Lincs PE11 1NJ
Received 5 Aug 2013138 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1HQ
Received 9 Jan 200896 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RQ
Received 22 Sept 20002 ORCHARD CLOSE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TY
Received 19 Apr 201627 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 2000Ash House Farm Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 30 Oct 2020St Guthlacs School Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JA
Received 9 Jan 2008Marchesi Sholtsgate Whaplode
Received 26 May 200637 Low Lane Holbeach
Received 15 Aug 2001Dalehead Foods Ltd Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6EP
Received 5 Sept 2011Millgate Farm Millgate Whaplode St Catherine PE12 6SF
Received 30 Apr 2009Records 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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