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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Coney Garth Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 1999High Street/Church Street Spalding
Received 11 Dec 1995Adj. 11 Blackbird Close Crowland PE6 0BF
Received 13 Oct 2021One Stop Convenience Stores Ltd 28 West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LW
Received 17 Jun 2013Plot adj 60 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BA
Received 25 Apr 2003Otway House Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 23 Jul 1999WINGLAND AERO CLUB WINGLAND AIRFIELD GREEN DYKE LUTTON PE12 0BF
Received 4 Mar 2016Cressy Farm Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JD
Received 6 Feb 202471 MIDDLE MARSH ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8DU
Received 19 May 2017The Childers High Road Whaplode
Received 16 May 2002Northgate Mill, Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jun 1996White House Farm Sarahgate Quadring Spalding PE11 4QE
Received 6 Dec 2011Askdale Broadgate Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HD
Received 25 Oct 2011Adjacent: Homeland Eaugate Road Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SP
Received 7 Aug 201772 Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 1995Trinity House Pinstock Lane Gedney Spalding
Received 16 Jul 1992Sutton Bridge Power Station Centenary Way Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9TF
Received 20 Nov 202449 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 15 May 1992St Matthews Close Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AY
Received 5 Jan 2026The Mill House 12 High Street Spalding
Received 2 May 2000Tydd Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 1996Springfield Nursery Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 199432 & 34 Fleet Road Industrial Estate (Units 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B) Holbeach Lincs
Received 30 Sept 1999Land off Peterborough Road Crowland
Received 28 Oct 2016Records 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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