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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
37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
George Thompson Farms Ltd Grove Farm Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn PE12 8JJ
Received 23 Dec 2013Rear: 77 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LF
Received 20 Apr 2015WESTBOURNE LODGE 13 COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RD
Received 13 Jan 2016Arnolds Meadow Nature Reserve Pecks Drove East Spalding PE12 6RL
Received 1 Feb 2022Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 1991Land adj Unit 2 Westlode Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2AF
Received 15 Jul 2026Millers Cottage Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 4SQ
Received 1 Oct 200959a HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NJ
Received 30 Mar 20207 Pennine Way Spalding Lincs PE11 2DB
Received 25 Oct 1999Stukeley Gardens Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Oct 2000Nene Lodge East Bank Wingland Sutton Bridge
Received 7 Sept 2004Rear of 210 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QA
Received 2 Oct 2026The Cottage Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 20 Sept 200547 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UB
Received 21 May 2018Elsoms Way Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 16 Nov 201521 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 1 Jun 20121 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 9 Jul 2018Cawood Hall Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HB
Received 12 Mar 2009WOODHOUSE HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING PE12 6JP
Received 23 Jul 2021Chillerstrips, Tyvan Cottage King John Bank Walpole St. Andrew Kings Lynn Norfolk
Received 29 Apr 1992Coronation Avenue Throckenholt Spalding Lincs PE12 0QT
Received 3 Feb 2015Fowler Welch Holly Lodge, West Marsh Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 21 Dec 19925 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EG
Received 29 Apr 2010Donington Churchyard Church Street Donington Spalding
Received 5 Mar 2015Records 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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