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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
37,481 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Grange Coxs Drove Postland Crowland PE6 OND
Received 3 Nov 2008Land off Stephenson Avenue South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jun 1996Adjacent: Norton Lodge Lutton Gowts Lutton Spalding PE12 9LQ
Received 8 Apr 20162 Mayfair Drive Little London Spalding
Received 9 Nov 2001Land off Barbers Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 9 Mar 199952 Willesby Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2AX
Received 17 Feb 1993Off Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RF
Received 2 Jun 2016Herring Lane Car Park Herring Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 20114 Albion Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AZ
Received 17 Jul 2013GREENCELL HOLLY LODGE WEST MARSH ROAD PINCHBECK PE11 3UW
Received 26 Mar 2015Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 1994'Little Drift' Hither Old Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 22 Mar 1999Land North: Withington Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SU
Received 16 Nov 2016Plot 2 South Eau Bank Gedney Hill
Received 8 Jan 2004Benfield The Tenters Holbeach
Received 10 Oct 2003STANTON HOUSE BROADGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JF
Received 7 Mar 2018BENNER GLENSIDE SOUTH PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3SA
Received 8 Nov 202131 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Feb 199418 Hocklesgate Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NS
Received 19 Jan 2010CARLTON LODGE OXCROFT BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TY
Received 16 Apr 2025PARK LANE HOUSE 5 PARK LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UE
Received 28 Oct 2016376 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs PE11 3LL
Received 28 Feb 20071 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Jan 200078 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AE
Received 31 Oct 2011Records 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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