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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
37,479 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adjacent Spearpoint Farm Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 25 Jan 201619 The Tenters Holbeach
Received 27 May 2008Dawsmere Road Dawsmere Spalding Lincs.
Received 13 Mar 2003Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen Boston
Received 24 Jun 20248 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JG
Received 24 Sept 2009WORLDWIDE FRUIT APPLE WAY PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3BB
Received 11 Apr 20142 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1991Adjacent to 72 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7HR
Received 27 Mar 20269 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3JP
Received 16 Dec 199328 Monks Meadow Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LJ
Received 28 May 200223 Chestnut Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 2002Stoney Lodge Main Road Gedney Drove End PE12 9PD
Received 8 Mar 20122A Osier Road & 2B Osier Road Spalding PE11 1UU
Received 11 Oct 201768 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RQ
Received 21 Oct 2009The Crystal Inn 5-6 Churchgate Spalding
Received 4 Apr 200239 Seas End Road Surfleet
Received 17 Jan 2002Kirkhill Farm 355 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding PE11 4ER
Received 6 Dec 2021Between the A16(T) North West Of Cowbit and the County Boundary South of Crowland
Received 18 Jul 2002Holbeach House North Side of Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 30 Oct 200727 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HL
Received 18 Oct 2019Mallard House Low Road Crowland PE6 0BX
Received 21 Aug 1992Pt.OS No. 0010, Church Gate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1997Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0RU
Received 16 Aug 1996Walnut Cottage Mill Green Road Pinchbeck
Received 6 Mar 2002Records 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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