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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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: 50 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding PE12 0XD
Received 12 Dec 2019Blacksmiths Cottage 2 Swapcote Lane Long Sutton
Received 19 Aug 2002Home Farm Millgate Whaplode
Received 4 Sept 2002Osborne House, Swale Bank Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1997Town Dam Lane Donington
Received 19 Sept 200671 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BB
Received 28 Jan 2025Land off Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 1996Central Tyre Depot Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 1998Land at Springfields Gardens Spalding
Received 26 Mar 2002Rear 1 Stukeley Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LG
Received 14 Oct 2009Keiths General Stores 22 Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 25 Mar 2003340 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SH
Received 21 Sept 2021Clay Lake Spalding
Received 31 Jan 2006Fourlin Poplars, Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Sept 199614 Oldham Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 20065 Penwald Close Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AQ
Received 28 Jul 1999Hides Farm The Common Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HL
Received 19 Apr 2013Stowgate Farm Stowgate Lincs PE6 8RW
Received 20 Dec 2001Pawana Damgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QL
Received 23 Dec 2011Land to the west of 74 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4DH
Received 10 Apr 20157a Stumps Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6AT
Received 15 Aug 201342 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ED
Received 3 Jul 199814 Ashby Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QR
Received 5 Sept 1995Hallgate Holbeach
Received 8 Sept 2006Records 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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