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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St James Lodge Postland Crowland Lincs
Received 6 Jun 2012Annex Yew Tree Farm Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 201012 Albert Street Spalding PE11 2LF
Received 10 Apr 20039 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4HE
Received 16 Jun 2006THE GRANGE HAYCROFT LANE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LB
Received 3 Feb 2023Land adjacent 2 Barbers Drove Crowland PE6 0BE
Received 10 May 2005Ridon, Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8PJ
Received 4 Oct 1991Land at Harvester Way Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0GB
Received 24 Dec 2014Plot 2, Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 1993Bridge House Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1993Land off Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 199984 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Sept 1997Amrian Cottage Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RT
Received 25 Aug 2009Land adjacent to 2 Willesby Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 2012Harrington Hall Farm Little Marsh Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NW
Received 29 Jan 2010Rear of War Memorial Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 14 Nov 2023210 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 199829 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 3 Oct 200150 Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8LA
Received 12 Nov 20215 Victoria Street Spalding
Received 19 Apr 200516 Station Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Feb 1992CROWLAND METHODIST CHURCH REFORM STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AN
Received 9 Sept 2025Adjacent 2 Willow Walk Spalding
Received 23 Oct 2006THE OLD HALL CHURCH END FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NQ
Received 30 Jun 2022Records 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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