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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Delgate Farm Footes Drove Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 29 Oct 199710 St Polycarps Drive Holbeach Drove Spalding
Received 28 Mar 1994West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 29 Oct 202111 Thorney Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AL
Received 4 Nov 2008Land adjacent 98 Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 29 Apr 2005Development at end of Eastlands Crowland Peterborough
Received 20 Jan 2020339 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 6 Oct 2014307 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Nov 2000201 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 27 Nov 2012Ashdown 3 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2BH
Received 18 May 2001Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 1999Plots 1 & 5 William Close Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 29 Feb 2016Greystones Washway Road Star Cross. Holbeach Spalding, Lincs. PE12 8BT
Received 19 Jun 200330 Kiln Drive Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 31 Jan 2008The Gate House North Gate Gosberton
Received 4 Feb 2004Land South of 199 Cradge Bank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 19 May 2025Red House Farm Cottage Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PU
Received 21 May 2009TANGLEWOOD CEDAR FALLS CARE HOME LITTLE LONDON SPALDING PE11 2UA
Received 25 Jul 2019Rear of 18 West End Off Boston Road South Holbeach Spalding
Received 26 Mar 2012Ayscoughfee Hall Museum & Gardens Church Gate Spalding PE11 2RA
Received 12 May 2022Hagbeach Farm - Yard Eaugate Road Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SW
Received 5 Feb 2018Holbeach Warehouse Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 26 Sept 2013The Old Rectory 8 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UD
Received 10 Jul 20069 Monks Meadow Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LJ
Received 10 Oct 2007Records 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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