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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Watergate Quadring Spalding PE11 4PY
Received 10 Oct 2019Spalding Railway Station Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jan 199613 FLEET STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING
Received 21 Dec 2015Westhaven 353 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding, Lincs PE11 4ER
Received 6 Oct 2003East of Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs (Field nos. 7572 & 9352)
Received 21 Jan 19949 Primrose Way Poppyfields Spalding Lincs PE11 1YT
Received 7 Jun 2007Off Peterborough Road Crowland
Received 4 Oct 2007Land off Spring Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1993Crown Farm Stockwell Gate West Whaplode Spalding PE12 6WG
Received 21 Oct 20226 BARBERS DROVE SOUTH CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EY
Received 19 Dec 2024Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 199614 North Parade Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AJ
Received 12 Oct 2012Plots 1-32 Off Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 13 Aug 2002The Hollies 52 Seas End Road Surfleet
Received 19 Oct 2006Herons Cottage Caravan Site Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 30 Sept 201375 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Aug 2005Port Sutton Bridge West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Nov 199959 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AH
Received 17 Jun 201042-44 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 21 Feb 20056 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AJ
Received 5 Oct 1994Crown Lodge, Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Apr 1998Plot 6, Off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 199522 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HL
Received 7 Jul 200638 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 6 Dec 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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