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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37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Plot rear 76 Commercial Road Barge Close Spalding
Received 25 Jul 2005Land adjacent 19 Station Street Spalding PE11 1EB
Received 28 Feb 202449 Nene Meadows Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9TZ
Received 9 Apr 20102 Monks Meadow Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LJ
Received 5 Oct 19944 Swapcoat Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HD
Received 27 Jun 2007Muxlows Farm Gosberton Bank Gosberton Spalding PE11 4PB
Received 31 Oct 2011Caultons Field West of Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EW
Received 3 Dec 201987A Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 1JQ
Received 30 Nov 1995Fairview Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8BX
Received 7 Nov 2005Units 4 & 5 Winsover Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Aug 19975 Crown Lodge Holbeach Clough Holbeach Spalding PE12 8TE
Received 13 Aug 2012North of Childers Drove South (South/east of A16 by-pass) Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jul 1993Acacia House Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8LH
Received 30 Jun 201147 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PU
Received 25 Jan 200681 Halmergate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EL
Received 3 Aug 2006BLACKBERRY LODGE 187 NENE TERRACE ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0LD
Received 20 Aug 2018Curlew Court Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QQ
Received 18 Jun 2002Wragg Marsh Farm Wykeham
Received 19 Feb 2008Deb Bruann Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JU
Received 10 Dec 2007Maydeane Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund
Received 2 Sept 2005Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UG
Received 13 Sept 2013Wayside Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 28 May 1993Ashwood Nursing Home 43 Spalding Common Spalding
Received 29 Mar 200549 Water Gate Quadring Spalding PE11 4PY
Received 24 Nov 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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