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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
TRENT FARM DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NA
Received 26 Nov 2020Boston Road Holbeach
Received 7 Mar 2001Craggs Cottage Clarks Hill Gedney
Received 27 Jan 2005Barrowpier Hall Farm Cheal Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Aug 19922 East Street Crowland Nr Peterborough PE6 0EN
Received 10 Jan 1992Land West of Apple Green Services Barrier Bank Spalding
Received 7 Jun 2022Beach Bank Farm Beach Bank Surfleet PE11 4AX
Received 24 Jul 20085 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AF
Received 20 Nov 2008Longlands 279 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund
Received 15 Mar 2007Tydd Gote Chapel Main Road Tydd Gote
Received 5 Mar 2007Kellet Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Nov 200078 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NS
Received 7 Dec 2007St James Farm Sheppards Drove Postland Crowland
Received 28 Mar 2002215 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SL
Received 2 Nov 2018Rosemary Cottage Crowland Common Crowland Lincs PE6 0HL
Received 21 Sept 2000The Shrubbery Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1998Land South of Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QG
Received 18 Dec 2020112 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 201023 Crown Avenue Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8EU
Received 28 Jun 2006GREENCORE FOOD TO GO WARDENTREE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UY
Received 31 Jan 2014Drill tower behind Fire Station Station Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 7 Jan 200064 Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1SY
Received 22 Jun 2012Main Road Service Station Wisbech Road Long Sutton PE12 9AE
Received 30 Jan 2015Holland Park (Plots 33 & 36) Off Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 1998Records 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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