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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding
Received 11 Sept 19929 West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LN
Received 3 May 20171A Cecil Pywell Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NA
Received 31 Aug 200511 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 4 Mar 200895 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JU
Received 4 Jun 2009Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 5 Jun 2014Lavender Farm Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs PE12 0TU
Received 30 Apr 2003189 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SL
Received 3 Feb 20168 BIRCH GROVE SPALDING PE11 2HL
Received 3 Mar 2014OS Map 3000 Between 36 & 68 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 4 Dec 2001Brickyard Cottages Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 30 Sept 1996Adjacent to Fleetwood Lodge 27 Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BE
Received 16 Jun 201038 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BA
Received 21 Sept 2021P and R Plant Ltd Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NG
Received 19 Apr 2010Broadway Crowland Peterborough
Received 11 Jan 2001'Nenedale' Nene Terrace Thorney Road Crowland Lincs PE6 0LD
Received 17 Aug 1998The Old Post Office 11 South Street Crowland PE6 0AH
Received 10 Jan 2001Red Fox Farm Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Oct 200554 Willesby Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2AX
Received 26 Nov 1992South Drove Spalding Common Lincolnshire PE11 3ED
Received 23 Jun 2000SPRING VILLA ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8BX
Received 21 Aug 2018Utopia 27a Quadring Road Donington
Received 27 Mar 2003Riverdale 44 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 31 Dec 2002Land adj. 192 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 May 1999Records 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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