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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Shangri-La Middlemarsh Road Moulton Marsh
Received 16 Jun 2006YEWS FARM 209 SPALDING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PB
Received 1 Aug 2015Land off Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PZ
Received 13 Mar 2020CEDARS 35 HIGH STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DB
Received 2 Mar 2015Land Adj 14 Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 28 Jan 20261 CHURCHILL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2RL
Received 16 Dec 2020Highview Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1992Chapters Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jun 1998Travellers Lodge (Former Cockrams Yard) Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4LE
Received 2 Sept 20161 Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 1995Grange Farm Postland Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ND
Received 6 Aug 2013Backgate (Adj. 43 & 49 Backgate) Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 17 Aug 200040 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BX
Received 17 Jan 2007Saltney Gate Saracens Head Spalding
Received 1 Dec 1992Station Road Holbeach
Received 22 May 20062b Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BA
Received 28 May 2025Arbour House Millgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RR
Received 25 Jan 2007Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 13 Aug 2001222 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6AL
Received 26 Jul 2000Treetops Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton
Received 9 Jun 2005Cromdale 75 Daniels Crescent Long Sutton
Received 18 Jun 2003Land off Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 27 Jan 2005NORTH DROVE STATION NORTH DROVE SPALDING PE11 3JF
Received 20 Mar 2017Adjacent: 106 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TW
Received 31 Oct 2016Records 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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