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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 PARK AVENUE SPALDING PE11 1QU
Received 19 Aug 2022Hides Farm The Common Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HL
Received 22 Dec 2010Holly House Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 1994Adjacent: Redmay Farm 317 Broadgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 13 Apr 201717 MILFOIL LANE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6XF
Received 12 Nov 2019The Fresh Snack Co Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 21 May 2001Parishes of Holbeach & Whaplode
Received 19 Aug 1999Phase 10 Wygate Park land off Wintergold Avenue Spalding
Received 1 Aug 2005Kennulphs Farm Wrights Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AB
Received 25 Nov 1993Co-op Supermarket 1 Clover Way Spalding Lincs PE11 3GD
Received 9 Jun 2017Plot 4 Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 2 Jan 2003Old Fire Station Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AB
Received 22 Jan 2013The Hole in the Wall Passage (between Boots & Midland Bank) Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 1992DAME BARN COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY WISBECH PE13 5QH
Received 28 Feb 2023175 Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs.
Received 6 Sept 2002Rosella Roman Bank Holbeach Bank
Received 27 Jan 2005Tamarisk Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 1999Land off Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 30 Sept 2022Garden Centre High Road Weston Spalding
Received 20 Jan 199218 Poppy Close Spalding Lincs PE11 3FQ
Received 25 Nov 201322 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 18 Aug 2008Ash Tree Farm Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 1996Land between Seagate Road and Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 19 Dec 2023Land to Rear of 29/31 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 20 Jun 2022Records 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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