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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
37,171 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plots 6 - 118 Foxes Low Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 7 Dec 19999 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UD
Received 20 Jul 202161 ROTTEN ROW PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RQ
Received 20 Mar 20172 Middle Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 15 Apr 201549 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 31 Jan 200143 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs
Received 8 Aug 2006Park Farm Donington Spalding Lincs. PE11 4UU
Received 5 Sept 1996Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8AL
Received 17 Jan 2023Fleet Road Fleet Hargate
Received 2 Jun 200052 Beccelm Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AG
Received 28 Sept 2020Browns Farm, Dawsmere Bank Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 1996Land rear 194 Park Road Spalding
Received 13 Oct 200518 Hall Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SQ
Received 13 Aug 201230 JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EP
Received 12 Feb 2014Adjacent: 101 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SD
Received 25 May 2016Franville Sutton Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HU
Received 8 Aug 2024Osier Road Spalding PE11 1UX
Received 15 Dec 2015Deeping St Nicholas Methodist Chapel Main Road Hop Pole PE11 3HJ
Received 31 Mar 2003Princes Ltd Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EQ
Received 17 May 2021Land north east of Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8LR
Received 10 Oct 2017Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9NW
Received 10 Dec 1991MILL LODGE MILL LANE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5SB
Received 16 May 2014Driftwood House High Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 2 Mar 1992Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Mar 1993Records 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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