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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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61 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 20 Aug 202419 WEST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EE
Received 16 Aug 2019Charlwood, Hulls Drove Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs PE12 0TU
Received 8 Feb 1999The Little Chippy 46 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EE
Received 10 Jan 2019Brook House Farm Marsh Road Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0AT
Received 16 Sept 2025Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jan 1992Chapel House Mill Bank Fleet Fen
Received 7 Oct 2005Off High Road Weston Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6JU
Received 28 Jun 2024Land west of Woolram Wygate (Wygate Park - Phase 8 plus amendments to Phase 7) Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 1996186 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 14 Mar 2002Land at Thames Road Spalding
Received 5 Jul 2006Beck Farm Lodge Fen Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XE
Received 2 Feb 20106 Neville Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2EH
Received 25 Jul 2003Former Health Centre West Street Long Sutton
Received 13 May 200426 CATHEDRAL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 1PQ
Received 26 Feb 2018COPELADE LODGE LITTLE LANE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6RU
Received 8 Jul 2019Red Mayes Farm Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding
Received 24 Mar 2023Money Bridge Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1993OTWAY HOUSE 34 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UD
Received 31 Aug 2022Hollyhock Farm Dog Drove, Sutton St James
Received 27 May 2005White House Chambers Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 16 Dec 1991Land off Lapwater Lane Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 199617 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Oct 19946 Church Walk Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 1994Records 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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