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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
37,229 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gosberton Playing Field High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 May 2017North View Fishing Lakes North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NS
Received 14 May 20212 St Paul's Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 199219 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 19 Mar 20192 Carrington Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1LY
Received 12 Feb 199314 West Bank Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0HP
Received 19 Jun 2009South Holland District Council Holbeach Depot Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 7 Dec 200718 Monks Meadow Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LJ
Received 14 Apr 2009Glenside Cottage Glenside North West Pinchbeck
Received 7 Jun 2007Adjacent to General Stores and Post Office Hillgate Gedney Hill
Received 4 Aug 2010Rear of 77 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LF
Received 21 Feb 201834 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 26 Jul 2021201A Pennygate Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jun 19951 Catherines Way (off Horsepit Lane) Pinchbeck
Received 1 Jul 2005Land adjacent 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 2010The Race Ground Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jul 1996DAVE COOK ENGINEERING QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TB
Received 15 Sept 2020Parish of Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Apr 1994Fire Station West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2BH
Received 11 Feb 2010312 Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 6 Oct 200494 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 26 Jun 20132 Pipwell Cottages Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End
Received 7 Oct 2004Towndam Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 1996On eastern boundary, dyke side of Glebe Sports Field off Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 6 Feb 2014Records 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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