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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 west of Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 1 Nov 199528 Albert Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DR
Received 28 Jun 2000The Peacock Public House Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QD
Received 15 Jul 2010The Mermaid Inn Gosberton Road Surfleet
Received 30 Jul 2003COMPACT CAR CORNER WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 18 Oct 2021Church Lane Lutton Spalding
Received 21 Oct 201123 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EA
Received 16 May 2007The Piggeries Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 3 Feb 1993COMMON FARM COMMON DROVE CROWLAND PE6 0HL
Received 25 Jun 2019Land Adj. 3-4 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding PE11 4ND
Received 24 Jan 2023Madras Farm The Delph Tongue End Spalding, Lincs
Received 12 Mar 199278 St Thomas' Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Jan 2000Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Mar 1993Moulton Harrox Society Broad Lane Moulton Spalding
Received 9 Mar 2022Daniels Gate Long Sutton
Received 14 Nov 200154 SIX HOUSE BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QG
Received 7 Mar 20146 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1998Adjacent 1 Norwood Cottage Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherines
Received 20 Oct 200687-89 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NA
Received 29 May 2009Lutton Bank Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 1996South Holland Community Hospital Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 5 Dec 2008St Johns Road Spalding
Received 31 Oct 2006Wygate Park - Monks House Lane Spalding
Received 12 Jul 2004Heron Foods 15a Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BE
Received 15 Jan 2009Records 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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