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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot adjacent to 37 St Pauls Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2LZ
Received 6 Sept 2011Shala Hazelwood Lane Fleet Spalding PE12 8PF
Received 11 Nov 2010Bank House North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EG
Received 16 Mar 1992King Street adjacent 124 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 25 Jul 2007115 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1992Plot adjacent Fens End French Drove Thorney PE6 0PE
Received 21 Mar 2005Plot to rear of 48 West Street Crowland Lincolnshire PE6 0ED
Received 25 Feb 1998Community Centre Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel
Received 11 Jul 2006The Cottage (Off Plank Hook Allotments Lane) Holbeach Bank
Received 22 Jul 2002Land west of 38 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Apr 20006 Station Road Tydd Gote
Received 24 Nov 2008The Willows Chapel Gate Whaplode Drove
Received 10 Apr 2007Land adj. 99 Pinchbeck Rd Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 1991Parish of Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 199114 STOCKHOUSE LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AR
Received 16 Feb 2018Station Road (west) Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jun 1993Bars Bridge Industrial Estate Bourne Road West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NQ
Received 5 Dec 2025Part NG No 1244 Westgate Moulton Chapel
Received 19 Aug 200455 MAIN ROAD QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PS
Received 31 May 2023Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 1 Apr 1999Brickyard Cottages Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding, Lincs PE11 3HW
Received 4 Nov 199112 Haverfield Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Mar 1992Chestnut Farm Main Road Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3HH
Received 3 Aug 2009WHITE HOUSE FARM BOSTON ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NU
Received 12 Jun 2020Records 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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