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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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63 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JT
Received 14 Mar 1996Spalding Girls High School Stonegate Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 1997The Old Post Office Holbeach Hurn Spalding
Received 29 Jun 2000SHOP 2 WEST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0ED
Received 4 Jun 2014Land Opposite Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 22 Dec 2009Shepherds House Fox Heading Lane Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RH
Received 10 Sept 2020The Cottage Hallgate Fleet
Received 24 Apr 2002Plot 2, Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 1994Plot 2 Mercia Lodge Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 10 Nov 20038 Abbotts Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1JS
Received 29 Apr 2004The Ship Albion Public House 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AT
Received 5 Aug 2009Adjacent 4 Pennytoft Lane Pinchbeck
Received 15 Nov 2007You Garden Packhouse Long Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PP
Received 17 Dec 202013 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EF
Received 17 Jun 2004Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding
Received 16 Feb 2001Wyeham Lodge Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 31 May 19951 WOODBANK DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EL
Received 31 Jan 202397 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LF
Received 6 Mar 2024Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 1997DOVEHIRNE FARM BOURNE ROAD WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NQ
Received 6 Feb 20183 Torfrida Close Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LW
Received 1 May 2019Adjacent 26 West Drove North Gedney Hill
Received 13 Mar 2008Mill House Farm Roman Bank Fleet Spalding PE12 8LW
Received 23 Jul 2022Hurdletree House Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QN
Received 15 Mar 2006Records 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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