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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Doctors Surgery Church Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2PB
Received 22 Nov 201124 Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 16 May 2006Adcocks Drinks Company Crease Drove Crowland
Received 15 Jul 2019Pear Tree Farm St James Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BA
Received 1 Sept 20262 Pine Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 2002292 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 6DA
Received 12 Sept 1996Abbey Walk Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EP
Received 22 Sept 1998Cherry Trees Saltney Gate Saracens Head Spalding
Received 2 Apr 1993THE ORCHARDS 16 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 17 Feb 201537 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 2006Hub Building Cibus Way Holbeach Spalding PE12 7FH
Received 5 Jul 2021Unit 2, 20 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AE
Received 10 Oct 2017An Hendra The Common Crowland PE6 0HL
Received 26 Sept 2013Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 199912 BIRCH GROVE SPALDING PE11 2HL
Received 28 Jan 2025Three Ways Proudfoot Lane Fleet Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 12 Apr 2000Land between 12 Flaxmill House & Old Lammas Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding
Received 9 Dec 2021Brenchley House Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 19993 Welland Road Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 2000Flemming Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jun 1992Market House 11 & 13 Market Street Long Sutton
Received 23 Nov 2004CHESTNUT FARMHOUSE MAIN ROAD HOP POLE SPALDING PE11 3HH
Received 1 Jun 2017Oldacres Mill High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 1999Off Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding
Received 23 Feb 2026Records 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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