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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
'Rushfields', Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 1998The Sidings Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 May 1993Weston St Mary Primary School Playing Field Small Drove Weston
Received 16 Jan 1998Land at Green Lane Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 Feb 2024Adjoining: Red Roofs Dowsdale Bank Crowland Peterborough
Received 17 Aug 1993Land off Milestone Lane Pinchbeck
Received 6 Mar 2007Gosberton Food Park Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 2000Two Hoots Ryefield Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PS
Received 30 Nov 2007South View CP School Reform Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AN
Received 6 Jul 1998THE MELROSE DOWSDALE BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TZ
Received 24 Apr 2025Broadgate Sutton St James
Received 14 Aug 2002Wensor Farm Spalding Road Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas
Received 13 Sept 20046 WEST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 27 May 20156 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH
Received 7 Nov 2022Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 199749 Market Rasen Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 11 Apr 2001106 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HR
Received 3 Dec 20086 LANCASTER DRIVE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BD
Received 25 Jun 2024Plot 28, Shire Lodge (Phase 6) Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 199710 South Street Crowland PE6 0AJ
Received 28 Oct 20023 SHIVEAN GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PL
Received 17 Apr 2026Site Trafalgar Square Long Sutton
Received 20 Jul 2004154 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DG
Received 15 Apr 2011Rear of 57 Rotten Row Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RQ
Received 7 Mar 2017Records 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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