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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 off Roman Bank Holbeach Bank
Received 5 Mar 2003Abbeygate Residential Home 9 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 12 May 199439 High Street Donington
Received 12 Dec 200624 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1994Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 29 Nov 201828 Plank Drove Crowland Spalding PE6 0BY
Received 15 May 2019Parish of Fleet
Received 11 May 1992Park Lodge Park Road Donington
Received 17 Jul 2001The Conifers 84 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NS
Received 7 Jul 2023MONTANA HOUSE 2 CHURCHGATE MEWS GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BQ
Received 28 Mar 202242 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BA
Received 22 Mar 2001PIPWELL MANOR WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AY
Received 16 Jun 2015Silverhill Caravan Park Roman Bank Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs PE12 9LQ
Received 17 Jan 200832 West Street Crowland PE6 0ED
Received 2 May 200654-56 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JF
Received 8 Sept 2005Princes Limited Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EQ
Received 1 Sept 202047 Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LS
Received 23 Jun 2010Plot 1 Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 8 Jan 2004Anglia Motel Washway Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LT
Received 5 Jan 2017Ropers Bridge Sewage Pumping Station Eastgate Whaplode
Received 24 Aug 2006Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Dec 1994Cradge Bank Industrial Estate Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Mar 1998Central Fish Bar 67and 69 High Street Holbeach
Received 11 Sept 2003Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 22 Mar 2002Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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