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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Garage at Old Rectory Church Street Holbeach
Received 28 Sept 2004Risegate House Farm Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 20 Oct 2025YEW LODGE 21 HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1TX
Received 23 Aug 2021Worlds End Road Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QN
Received 24 Jan 202241 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TE
Received 8 Jan 20169 Cinder Ash Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AE
Received 19 Feb 200321 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AH
Received 15 Jun 2010THOMAS COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TF
Received 9 Aug 2022Wykeham House Marsh Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 3 Sept 1998Stepping Stone Walk Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jan 1996Builders Yard Site Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Apr 19921 Manor Gardens Crowland Peterborough PE6 0DF
Received 7 Jan 202662 HATT CLOSE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PY
Received 16 May 2016Wignals Gate (Plots 21-39 & 79-83) Holbeach Spalding
Received 4 Feb 1998Land between Seagate Road and Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 11 Sept 202696 STONEGATE SPALDING PE11 2PQ
Received 27 Jan 201648 Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 14 May 2007Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 7 Nov 2003Plot at Money Bridge Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1995The Ship Albion Inn 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 16 Sept 20095 Park Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UE
Received 18 Feb 2008Holbeach United Football Club Carters Park Park Road Holbeach
Received 10 Nov 200869 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2EB
Received 28 Feb 2011113 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DQ
Received 25 Mar 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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