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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate
Received 22 Feb 2005Weston St Mary Primary School Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 2001Riverside Park Claylake Lane Spalding
Received 16 Aug 2001McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 16 Feb 20101 Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NP
Received 24 Feb 2012Plot adjacent Peterborough Road Crowland
Received 20 Jul 2004Church House Church Street Donington Spalding
Received 23 Sept 1997Elloe Lodge 47 West Elloe Avenue Spalding
Received 22 Sept 200480 STATION STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UJ
Received 21 Jun 202353 High Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NW
Received 27 Jul 2012Eye Farm 168 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 4 Jul 2018DOLBURN HOUSE HURN BANK HOLBEACH HURN SPALDING PE12 8JG
Received 8 Aug 20223 Barbers Drove North Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BE
Received 28 Jun 2010Lincs Pumps and Pipelines Winjac Watergate Quadring PE11 4PY
Received 13 Aug 201251 Leamlands Lutton Marsh
Received 17 Jul 2002The Bull Hotel Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 28 Jan 20081 2 Caulton Cottages Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 14 Nov 2005Land off St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 25 Feb 2004Plot 5 West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PN
Received 19 Jun 202011 11A New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1DQ
Received 14 Aug 2008Lutton Bank Lutton Marsh Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 May 20159 OAK SQUARE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0DX
Received 10 Oct 201617 West End Holbeach Spalding
Received 29 Jun 1994Former South View Primary School Albion Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AN
Received 25 Apr 2017Records 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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