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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Spalding Energy Expansion Limited West Marsh Road SPALDING PE11 2BB
Received 11 Sept 2017Land off Taylors Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EN
Received 24 Aug 2017Sandygate Farmhouse Sandygate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HG
Received 4 Jun 202048 Woodrow Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1BF
Received 26 Feb 2008Plot 3 Adj. 7 Barbers Drove South Crowland
Received 8 Apr 20222 Millfoil Lane Curlew Drive Cowbit PE12 6XF
Received 14 May 2002Fleet Mews & Orchard House Orchard Park Fleet Road Holbeach PE12 7BS
Received 26 Mar 2024Deep Dene Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 3 Nov 1999Yates Seeds, Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1997121 Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8LD
Received 17 Jul 2014Plots 81-222 Phase 3 Holland Park Spalding
Received 8 Sept 200611 Fennell Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RP
Received 23 Nov 2001Adjacent Melrose Cottage Roman Bank Holbeach Bank
Received 1 Nov 200419 West Street Crowland Spalding PE6 0EE
Received 28 May 20199 Sunflower Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1PY
Received 6 Apr 2010Adjacent: 33 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6UL
Received 15 Oct 2018'Glendow', Small Drove Lane Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NL
Received 12 Apr 1996Pinchbeck Pumping Station West Marsh Road Pinchbeck
Received 21 Dec 2006S M C BELCHMIRE LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4HG
Received 29 Oct 2025St Marys Primary School Cowbit PE12 6AL
Received 2 May 2003"East Elloe", Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 15 May 1995Fairways Bensgate Road Fleet Fen
Received 14 Feb 2005Cherry Lodge West Cobgate Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JF
Received 8 Sept 2003The Pinfold, 37 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Mar 1998Records 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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