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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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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.
2 St Marys Meadows Gedney Spalding Lincs, PE12 0DL
Received 20 Sept 200281 Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 8 Apr 2002RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS QUAKERS 53 WESTLODE STREET SPALDING PE11 2AE
Received 28 Nov 2014'Glenside Cottage' Glenside North West Pinchbeck PE11 3NW
Received 28 Apr 2009123 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DG
Received 29 Nov 2006Rear of 3 Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1UN
Received 22 Mar 2011Melandi High Road Weston Spalding, Lincs. PE12 6JU
Received 2 Oct 2002"Heatherdown", Elm Lane Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 199413 EXETER DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DY
Received 2 Apr 201480 Boston Road Holbeach
Received 28 Jun 2005Chestnut House North Pennyhill Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DN
Received 4 Sept 2025SHOP AND PREMISES 14 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 17 May 2021Brambles 45 Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 4 May 2005Fenland Manor Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8RQ
Received 24 Feb 1999100 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 1995SUFFOLK HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LJ
Received 22 Jun 2016Amber Cottage Pipwell Gate Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8BA
Received 27 Mar 2017St John Baptist C.E. (Aided) Primary School Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 2 Dec 1997Freshlinc Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ZN
Received 23 Feb 20214 THE LAURELS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7RE
Received 18 Jun 20262 SCHOOL LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HW
Received 19 May 2025Plots 1-46, Holland Park Off Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 1996Ravensbush Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine
Received 3 Nov 200814 CROYLAND WAY CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0NA
Received 30 Mar 2021Records 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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