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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
White House Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 23 Mar 19997 EXETER DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DY
Received 19 Nov 2024Crawford House Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0AL
Received 27 May 2021Land rear 1 - 3 West Street Crowland PE6 0EE
Received 22 Aug 2005Off West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 10 Feb 20001 Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 2008Granite House Chapelgate Gedney Spalding PE12 OBJ
Received 25 Jun 2012Plot 49, Wygate Park (Phase 2) Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 1997Broad Street Spalding
Received 14 Jun 20013 Bertie Close Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 200213 MILL GREEN ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PU
Received 16 Nov 2017JOHN WRIGHT ENGINEERING FENLAND MANOR JEKILS BANK HOLBEACH ST JOHNS PE12 8RQ
Received 9 Jul 20144 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BN
Received 21 Jul 1995Tye Rock Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 2001Plot 1 Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Nov 2000Dunton Hall Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5NG
Received 29 Apr 1997'The Poplars', Fulney Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 199641 SEAS END ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING LINCOLNSHIRE PE12 6LD
Received 19 May 2014Chestnut Acre Sholtsgate Whaplode
Received 16 Apr 200755 LANGWITH DRIVE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HQ
Received 27 Aug 2015Land to east of Yew Lodge Farm Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SS
Received 11 Jul 2011Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 199325 BOWDITCH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2QF
Received 25 Sept 201926 GREEN LANE SPALDING PE11 2YD
Received 12 Sept 2014Records 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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