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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
OS 0028, Fronting Common Drove Crowland Common Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Dec 1993TAMARA FRENCH DROVE THORNEY PETERBOROUGH PE6 0PH
Received 22 Jul 2024Land adj. to 72 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LL
Received 16 Jan 201730 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 1JH
Received 5 Feb 1992Adjacent to 'Wembley House' Lowgate Tydd St Mary
Received 21 Jun 200123 St Williams Court Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7QR
Received 22 Feb 1996Former Finnings Site Westlode Street Spalding
Received 8 Mar 200560 Marshlands Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7QW
Received 8 Jul 2005Petals Nursery Weston Hills Road Spalding
Received 17 Oct 2006137 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Feb 2001Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1997Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 1996Hobart House 83 Main Road Quadring
Received 8 Nov 2005Pt OS 8525 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 1 Feb 2000APPLE TREE HOUSE WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PE
Received 24 Oct 2014Holbeach Technology Park Park Road Holbeach
Received 13 Dec 2006Junction of Fleet Road and Haycroft Lane Midway between Holbeach and Fleet, Lincs
Received 7 Apr 2000BUCKLAND HOUSE WASHWAY ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 0DH
Received 3 Nov 201628A Battlesfield Lane South Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PQ
Received 30 Jul 20135 CHURCH STREET SPALDING PE11 2PB
Received 3 Nov 2014Off Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 1996Off High Road Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JU
Received 29 Jul 2019Marriots Farm Black Hole Drove West Pinchbeck PE11 3QL
Received 4 Nov 200574 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 11 May 2017Records 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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