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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
46 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 27 Oct 2003Adjacent 339 High Road Whaplode
Received 12 Sept 2005Foremans Bridge Bridge No 41 09 98 B1390, Wanton's Cross Gate Sutton St James
Received 28 Jan 2005Adj. 96 Cecil Pywell Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Feb 1999Plots 1 and 2 Rear: 55 Backgate Cowbit Spalding
Received 27 May 201688 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NS
Received 14 Apr 201431 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 199371 Postland Road Crowland Lincs PE6 0JB
Received 6 May 1997Adj 2 Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0AL
Received 23 Dec 2003Postland Road Crowland Lincs
Received 11 Aug 1999Saltern House Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JE
Received 25 Nov 2016Lincoln Co-Op Store Petrol Filling Station A151/High Road Whaplode
Received 18 Jan 2002Abbey Print Ltd Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 11 May 2006Manor Farm Cottage Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1999Chris Eley Produce Ltd Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding
Received 20 Jun 2007THE SHIP ALBION 37 ALBION STREET SPALDING PE11 2AJ
Received 7 Jan 2021Chestnut House Mill Green Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jan 199717 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6QB
Received 22 Jul 201133 Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 OLS
Received 3 Mar 2010Seagate Farm 184 Seagate Road Long Sutton
Received 5 Jun 2006OLD VICARAGE 48 CHURCH LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6NP
Received 19 Sept 2018West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 1999Buildings Adj. Carlton Lodge Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding
Received 31 Jan 2023Pygott and Crone 10 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1XA
Received 11 Jan 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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