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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
173 Seagate Road Long Sutton
Received 18 Jul 20035 North Street Crowland PE6 OEG
Received 3 Mar 201078 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YA
Received 11 Apr 2019Harribels Cottage Saltfleet Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BD
Received 25 Feb 20135 Nelson Close Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0DL
Received 18 Feb 2008Leadenhall Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding
Received 22 Feb 2012Phoenix House, 2 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Nov 1997The Paddock Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3BE
Received 9 May 2000Barrier Bank Peak Hill Cowbit Spalding
Received 5 Dec 2023Fleet Road Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Nov 1994The Surgery Church Walk Pinchbeck
Received 21 Jan 2004Lowgate Grange Lowgate Fleet
Received 12 Dec 200823 MAIN STREET GEDNEY DYKE SPALDING PE12 0AJ
Received 21 Feb 201814 CHESTNUT AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NE
Received 5 May 201511 Saxony Way Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4YA
Received 8 Apr 2002Former School Playing Field St Johns Road Weston Hills
Received 8 Feb 200743 The Reservoir Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jan 1998Parishes of Donington (Cow Bridge) and Gosberton (Wargate)
Received 23 Feb 201157 HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING LINCOLNSHIRE PE11 2HY
Received 21 Jan 2014Plot 1, Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 199220 Bear Lane Pinchbeck PE11 3XA
Received 15 Jun 2006Sunny Brae Church Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 2015McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 8 Jun 2010The Gambles Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UP
Received 22 Oct 2010Records 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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