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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tears Recovery Gosberton Road Surfleet
Received 18 Feb 2008Land East of Crease Drove Crowland
Received 1 Sept 202053 Love Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Nov 1991Plots 42 & 43 North Parade Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AJ
Received 2 Oct 199136 Boston Road Holbeach Lincs PE12 7LX
Received 12 Mar 200446 Town Drove Quadring Spalding, Lincs
Received 30 Jul 2004Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8BB
Received 20 Nov 2017Spalding Telephone Exchange Winsover Road Spalding
Received 20 Nov 2003Rosedale Farm Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PT
Received 16 Aug 2023Land at 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6AQ
Received 14 Feb 2024Plot 2, Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 1996GIST Ltd Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 12 Oct 20058 CHANCERY LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DS
Received 10 Jul 2023Boundary House 10 Shivean Gate Moulton Spalding PE12 6PL
Received 18 Jul 201656 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BA
Received 5 Jun 200611 Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UA
Received 21 Nov 2019Fleming Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3YR
Received 21 Oct 202517 Market Place Donington
Received 18 Dec 2002Bank House Farm 8 Cooks Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4PE
Received 9 Jul 2009Mill Cottage Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SQ
Received 27 May 2010HILLS FARM GOSBERTON BANK GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PB
Received 16 May 2024TURNERS TURKEYS 200 LUTTON GATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LJ
Received 25 Mar 2014Front of Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 11 Oct 2012Spindle Cottage/Blackthorn Cottage Campains Lane Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EX
Received 25 Apr 2018Records 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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