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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Churchfleet Lane/ Cambridge Gardens Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1994South View Primary School Reform Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AN
Received 1 Dec 200910 Long Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5RB
Received 18 Jun 20081 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EE
Received 2 Oct 2000Holmefield Nurseries Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck, Spalding Lincs, PE11 3UP
Received 2 Feb 1994Salem Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 199545 & 48 and Longs Warehouse and vacant plot Double Street, Spalding
Received 1 Feb 199314 Woodrow Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1BF
Received 15 May 200962 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BA
Received 29 Aug 2013Plot 7 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 2000Land between Seagate Road & Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 23 Dec 2021Plot 10, Chapel Gardens Moulton Chapel Spalding, Lincs
Received 25 Mar 199934 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 May 200617 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UD
Received 4 Sept 2026Reeds Yard Rear : 10 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 3 Oct 2005Hurdletree House Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QR
Received 27 Oct 2005Cheylesmore Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BT
Received 16 Feb 201210 Hall Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SR
Received 7 Mar 199545 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EG
Received 21 Apr 20089 Coalbeach Lane South Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DF
Received 9 Mar 2011Land to east: Sutton Bridge & north west of Walpole St Pete Spalding
Received 25 Nov 201636 CORONATION AVENUE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EP
Received 21 Feb 2017Curlew Cottage Middle Marsh Road Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 1993150 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 18 Dec 2008Records 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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