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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent: Saracen House Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding
Received 13 Dec 2023Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding
Received 22 Sept 1992Gedney Dyke Playing Field Lowgate Gedney Spalding
Received 9 May 199732 Stanley Drive Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 May 2000321 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4ER
Received 24 Feb 20064 Orchard Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jun 1995Land South of Green Lane/East of Bacons Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XS
Received 6 Oct 2022The Old Farmhouse Cowbit Drove/Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TG
Received 8 Nov 1995Unit D Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 21 Oct 200414 RIVER BANK SPALDING PE11 3AA
Received 16 May 2018The Rowans Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NP
Received 24 Aug 2010BANK HOUSE NURSING HOME GOSBERTON BANK GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PB
Received 29 May 2015Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 6 Mar 2002'Wayside', Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 14 Nov 1995West Acorns Farm 73 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3QG
Received 23 Jan 2023Land between Montague House/Cranley Lodge Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8LD
Received 29 Apr 2013Land between 44-46 Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 11 Jun 2020Moulton Seas End Village Hall Seas End Road Moulton Seas End
Received 1 Dec 2004111 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 23 Feb 2004Land North of Fengate Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3PU
Received 9 Oct 2024Rozel Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PL
Received 25 Jul 202596 Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 3 Sept 2004Adjacent Berberis House Old Fendike Sutton St James
Received 8 Dec 2006The Three Chestnuts Fen Road Holbeach
Received 17 Sept 2004Records 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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