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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6A Barbers Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BE
Received 24 May 200615A Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 1991Clanranald House, North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jun 1995Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 16 Jun 2017Orchard House Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Oct 20152 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7LW
Received 12 Jul 200110 SALTERN DRIVE SPALDING PE11 1UQ
Received 25 Apr 2023Sunny View Lutton Bank Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs PE12 9LL
Received 3 Nov 200314 West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 31 Mar 200033 North Parade Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AJ
Received 6 Sept 1993Trafalgar Square Long Sutton
Received 12 Sept 20052a, 2b and 2c Carrington Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1LY
Received 26 Jun 2023Sluice Farm Holbeach St Marks
Received 30 Sept 2005White House Farm Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 199913 Harpe Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RX
Received 2 Aug 1996Willowdene Farm Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EU
Received 25 Apr 2012Former Pinchbeck Diary Pennytoft Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PQ
Received 15 May 2015Greenfields 23 Hillgate Gedney Hill
Received 15 Aug 2008AVENUE FARM HOUSE AVENUE FARM ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QF
Received 2 Aug 2019The Manor House Hallgate Fleet Spalding PE12 8NG
Received 30 Jul 2012Church Way Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 4 May 1995Crowtree Farm Old Hall Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AJ
Received 6 Mar 202535 Middle Road Whaplode Spalding
Received 21 Feb 1992FEN WILLOW 23 COBGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TD
Received 17 Feb 2016Records 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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