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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crossgate Farm Crossgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 1993Welland Fresh Foods Geest Foods Limited West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 19 Dec 2005Units 26-27 Springfields Development Camel Gate Spalding
Received 16 Mar 200444 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 1995Land west Woolram Wygate Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Aug 2009Wygate Foundation Nursery School co Spalding Primary School Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1PB
Received 21 Jun 201042 Beccelm Drive Crowland PE6 0AG
Received 20 Jun 2005Main Road Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 3 Aug 1992Unit 4, Benner Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 1996Land North West of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 28 Mar 202239 Hallgate Holbeach
Received 20 Mar 2006Land off New Road Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Dec 2001'Glendale' Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PD
Received 26 Jan 1998Wilmar North Bank Crowland PE6 0HG
Received 7 Mar 201965 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 17 Apr 201260 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 28 Mar 2017Hills of Spalding Broad Street Spalding
Received 25 Jun 20011 NEWLANDS ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DT
Received 23 Jun 2014ROSE AND CROWN INN MARSH ROAD HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JN
Received 10 Feb 2021Ashtree Farm Randall Bank Moulton Eaugate Spalding PE12 0RT
Received 21 Feb 2012Former Mushroom Farm Roman Bank Crosses Long Sutton
Received 29 Jan 2007Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 22 May 199263 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 2004Green Acres Park Ropers Gate Gedney Spalding PE12 0GA
Received 16 Jun 2015Records 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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