Understanding planning · 13 min read
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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chestnut Farm Seas End Road Moulton
Received 23 May 2006Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Sept 1994The Courtyard, 5 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 1997ELDA CHURCHGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BZ
Received 19 Nov 2024Land and buildings Seas End Road B1357 Moulton Loosegate
Received 15 Jun 2007Site Off Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1999Westlode Street Double Street Spalding
Received 4 Aug 2005Adjacent: 4 The Laurels Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7RE
Received 1 Feb 2019Part of Turners Factory Clay Lake Spalding PE12 6BL
Received 20 Jan 20223 Chepstow Close Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 2006County Primary School Holbeach Bank
Received 22 Jun 199527 WRIGHTS LANE SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RH
Received 19 Mar 2026Frontage land south east Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 12 Jul 2006off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Sept 2009172 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 9 Nov 200098 High Street Gosberton
Received 13 Jun 200869C Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 8 Nov 1996Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Jun 199812 Haverfield Road Spalding
Received 20 Apr 200420 WESTMINSTER DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2UW
Received 10 May 2018Land rear 1-3 Kings Road Spalding
Received 13 Jan 2005GATE FARM HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING PE12 6JR
Received 8 Dec 2020Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 May 1995Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 2009Records 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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