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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
170 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 30 Oct 1992Land to the rear of Northgate Nurseries Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 2017517 Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 18 Feb 2008Red House Jarvis Gate Sutton St. James Lincs
Received 28 Jul 2000Adj Vine Street Car Park & Bedford Place Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 2000Albion Street Crowland PE6 0EB
Received 21 Nov 2005Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Oct 199837A NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DW
Received 4 Jan 2016CORNELIUS HOUSE LEADENHALL ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EY
Received 14 Mar 2023Ivanda Nursery Monks House Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 199429 COALBEACH LANE SOUTH SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DE
Received 15 Feb 20167 North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ES
Received 11 Mar 199887 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit PE12 0XD
Received 4 Nov 2021British Gas Transco (NTS) Pipeline, West of Carrington Road, Wragg Marsh to Proposed Power Station Site, West of
Received 15 Oct 199678 WEST STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 20 Mar 2025St Johns Church Joys Bank Holbeach Spalding PE12 8RS
Received 17 Mar 2015Plots 14 & 15 Holyrood Close Donington Northorpe Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 2000Fleet Estate Office Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1995HARVEST HOME LOWGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BL
Received 20 May 2015New Fen Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0PY
Received 17 Aug 2023The Bull Public House Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1994Plot 14, Land east of new local distributor road, Holland Park Spalding
Received 24 Sept 1992Barn at land adjacent Holly Cottage Old Fen Dike Sutton St James PE12 0HE
Received 9 Jul 2026COWLEY ACADEMY SCHOOL LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TF
Received 17 Nov 2025Records 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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