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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
87 Chapel Gate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EF
Received 10 Oct 2017The Glebe Field, Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 199820 Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 May 2012High Street Moulton
Received 18 Dec 2001Jamph House 46 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6UA
Received 25 Jan 2016Land at Middle Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 199938 South Street Crowland Lincs PE6 0AJ
Received 3 Oct 2002GATEHOUSE COTTAGE DAM GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8PB
Received 9 Jul 2025Former Boston Tractors Ltd Boston Road South Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LR
Received 4 Dec 2014White House Bungalow Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NU
Received 1 Dec 2005The Maples 27A Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UD
Received 27 May 2008The Chestnuts and Craigan Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 15 Jan 2003Land off Station Road Surfleet
Received 3 May 2018CROFTON 7 HIGHSTOCK LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0QG
Received 23 Nov 20209 The Crescent Spalding Lincs PE11 1AE
Received 5 Aug 2009Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 199445 LOW LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PW
Received 18 Mar 2015Land off Peterborough Road and Harrington Drive Crowland PE6 0AT
Received 14 Jun 2024Red House Farm Cottage Town Drove Quadring
Received 14 Jul 2008Part Former Airfield Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 14 Oct 2004Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jul 1994Swindlers Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 1994Apple Tree Cottage Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge
Received 19 Oct 20075 Lincoln Avenue Gedney Hill
Received 25 Apr 2003Records 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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