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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
37,339 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjacent Four Trees Station Road Long Sutton
Received 20 Dec 2004Wardentree Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 2000Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 1993Land adjacent to Barrier Bank Road Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Mar 2015Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Nov 2000Wingland Airfield Green Dyke Lane Gedney Dyke
Received 2 Feb 2006VERNATTS BUNGALOW THE RESERVOIR SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DJ
Received 31 May 201972 RISEGATE ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4EY
Received 14 Aug 2015Land rear 10-26 Postland Road 1-25 Cloot Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JG
Received 19 Jan 2012Boston Road Holbeach
Received 1 Mar 2005TESCO BOSTON ROAD SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LR
Received 29 Aug 2025Off Chaucers Way Spalding PE11 1LH
Received 3 Jul 2019Adjacent: 117 Fleet Road Fleet Hargate PE12 8LD
Received 27 Mar 2009Land South of Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 29 May 1998Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1997Land at Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 200126 ROTTEN ROW PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RH
Received 6 Nov 20186A Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 15 Dec 20218 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 3 Feb 2003Plot at Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Apr 2000Mossop And Bowser 10 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LP
Received 10 Sept 2025Langary Gate Road Fleet Coy Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Feb 2000Land off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Apr 1998Leamside Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QL
Received 29 Oct 2012Records 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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