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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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17 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 15 Dec 2004Land at Low Road, Queens Road and Lowfields Avenue Spalding
Received 12 Sept 2001Westmere Community Primary School Anne Road Sutton Bridge
Received 8 May 2008Land adjacent to 38 Broadway Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BH
Received 5 Jan 20242 Barbers Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 25 Sept 2002Land rear: Post Office 158 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SF
Received 31 Oct 2019Former Finning Site Westlode Street/Double Street Spalding
Received 26 Mar 2007158 MAIN ROAD QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PT
Received 20 Jan 201684 86 Halmergate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EQ
Received 4 Sept 2008'Linden House' Church Gate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 1998Apple Barn Station Road Gedney
Received 12 Jun 2002THE BEECHES 31 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NL
Received 12 Mar 202160 Hatt Close Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Aug 1999The Paddock Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 21 Oct 2005Rear of The Hollies 30 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 4 Jan 2024Land North Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8LR
Received 1 Jun 2009UNIT 4 - SUNFLOWER LODGE CHILDCARE APEX COURT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UL
Received 24 Feb 2015Adjacent Braemar Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 9 Aug 2001J O SIMS LTD PUDDING LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TJ
Received 10 Nov 2025WINDMILL GARAGE 34 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 10 May 2019Off River Bank/Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AA
Received 6 Mar 202312 Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 15 Dec 1999Crowland Low Wash Spalding
Received 26 Sept 20133 West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LW
Received 27 May 2026Records 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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