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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Crooked Billett Church End Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Apr 200121 STATION STREET SPALDING PE11 1EB
Received 25 Nov 201514 West Bank Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0HP
Received 2 Apr 2009Plot adjacent 1 Willesby Road Spalding PE11 2AX
Received 4 Jul 2012Plot 1, The Sidings Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Aug 1993Land East of Backgate Cowbit Spalding
Received 11 Apr 2018The Hair Shop 22 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jan 1999Adjacent 204 High Road Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JU
Received 4 Mar 2013Land North of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 23 Sept 20246 ST BENEDICT CLOSE CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0NW
Received 16 Apr 2015The Punchbowl Public House New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Feb 1999Eden House Damgate Holbeach
Received 11 Oct 2006Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 1998Plots 1 and 2 Between 61-71 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DQ
Received 26 Sept 2018Plot adj to Chapel House Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding
Received 26 Jun 2001Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JP
Received 19 Feb 2013The Crooked Billett Church End Fleet
Received 28 Mar 2001Red House Farm The Wykes Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4SE
Received 10 Feb 2006Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Feb 1998Land at South East Quadrant Holbeach Road A151 and A16 Inter Section Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 6 Oct 2010Farm buildings adjacent The Grange Lutton
Received 24 Aug 2004Land Adj. 2 Hereward Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 2000LITTLE BIRCH BARN STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 18 Oct 2023The Mill Mill Lane Gedney Hill
Received 25 May 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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