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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 BIRCH GROVE SPALDING PE11 2HL
Received 29 Sept 2021Crossroads Nurseries Main Road Quadring
Received 27 Oct 2005Mill Drove Cowbit Spalding
Received 24 Nov 1994'Little Drift' Hither Old Gate Holbeach Lincs
Received 22 Mar 1999Railway Cottage Counter Drain Drove Tongue End Spalding PE11 3JH
Received 11 Feb 2021The Black Swan Public House 12 New Road Spalding
Received 6 Feb 2008Matthew Flinders Residential Home 2 Station Street Donington
Received 28 Oct 200518 Low Road Crowland Spalding
Received 9 May 2023Broadwater House Farm Hallgate Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Nov 1994Cley Hall Hotel 22 High Street Spalding Lincs, PE11 1TX
Received 24 Nov 200327 Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TG
Received 26 Apr 1995Adjacent 4 Beechfield Gardens Spalding PE11 1UN
Received 8 May 2007Abbey Veterinary Centre 6 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AJ
Received 25 Jan 199917 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Feb 1997Mowbray House Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0AJ
Received 17 Mar 201021-23 Market Place Spalding PE11 1ST
Received 7 Apr 2022Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 19 Nov 201012 East Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EN
Received 25 Feb 1997STANTON HOUSE BROADGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JF
Received 21 Aug 2018E M COLE FARMS LTD SMALL DROVE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NL
Received 6 Feb 2020Adjacent: 60 Peterborough Road Crowland PE6 0BA
Received 3 Jan 1995APRIL COTTAGE ROMAN BANK SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8BB
Received 29 Nov 2016The Old Red Lion, Chapelgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Aug 199710 New Road Spalding
Received 10 Jun 2003Records 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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