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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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57 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PE
Received 20 Mar 2002Holbeach Methodist Church Albert Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Mar 199580 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AQ
Received 30 Nov 2021Orchard House 32 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding, Lincs. PE11 4EZ
Received 5 Feb 2003Plot 2, Crossgate Farm Yard Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XX
Received 15 Oct 20152 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NH
Received 20 Jun 2001Adjacent 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AQ
Received 24 Jul 2012Site 2, Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Nov 1998Land off Low Road Holbeach Hurn
Received 7 Jan 2008COACH HOUSE 19A HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1TX
Received 31 Jan 2024"Enginie", Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 1995Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding
Received 28 Feb 2003Adjacent to 1 Baulkins Drove Sutton St James Lincolnshire PE12 0JX
Received 12 Jul 2001Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6EW
Received 13 Apr 2016White House Farm Sarahgate Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QE
Received 14 Sept 2016University Academy Holbeach Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JA
Received 24 Jul 20138 SPRING GARDENS SPALDING PE11 2XL
Received 3 Feb 202340 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 14 Jul 200423 CHURCH LANE CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ER
Received 11 Oct 2017Rear of 57 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AH
Received 28 Jul 1997The Barns Shaws Lane Little Sutton
Received 2 Nov 2004Adj. Austendyke Hall (Agricultural outbuildings) Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BZ
Received 5 Oct 1994Land rear: Fen Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 11 Mar 2019Land off Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Aug 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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