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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Mallards Tydd Low Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 6AR
Received 21 Jan 201316 ABBEY WALK CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EP
Received 21 Jul 2023115 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PJ
Received 7 Oct 2013QV Foods Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8LR
Received 5 Sept 2019102 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HJ
Received 19 Nov 2008PIPWELL MANOR WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AY
Received 16 May 2014Boundary between 10 High Street and 2 Bell Lane Moulton Spalding
Received 29 May 2014Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Postland Crowland
Received 18 Mar 2003PAYNTON MAIN ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PD
Received 11 Feb 202039 Albert Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2LD
Received 11 Mar 199410 CROYLAND WAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0NA
Received 11 Dec 202334 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EA
Received 17 Jan 2011The Jolly Crispin Public House Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1995Winters Lane Storage Winters Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 1995Land bounding The Crescent Spring Gardens and Priory Road Spalding
Received 4 Nov 2005Wool Hall Farm Crossgate Wykeham Spalding Lincs PE12 6HW
Received 13 Dec 2006NEW HOUSE WHALE DROVE WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0UB
Received 28 Feb 202259 BROADWAY CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BH
Received 16 Aug 2017Rear: Cloot Drove/Postland Rd Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 OJG
Received 23 Oct 1991The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LR
Received 18 Jun 2001Middledene House Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 9 Jul 2025117A Albion Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2BA
Received 8 Jul 2025Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 1997The Robin Hood Public House 1 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs, PE11 2BN
Received 26 Oct 1992Records 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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