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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Land adj. 29 Horsepit Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 May 2000Sense Trading 3-7 Station Street Spalding
Received 26 Mar 2007Park Farms Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UJ
Received 18 May 2011Off River Bank/Cradge Bank Spalding PE11 3AA
Received 3 Mar 2022SPALDING REGISTRY OFFICE 1 BATH LANE SPALDING PE11 1XP
Received 30 Oct 2020Curlew Drive Cowbit PE12 6FB
Received 16 Oct 2002The Willows Lutton Gowts Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs PE12 9LQ
Received 17 Dec 200366 Harvester Way Crowland Peterborough PE6 0DA
Received 7 Dec 2011Off Chapelgate and Bells Drove Sutton St James
Received 14 Jan 2003Off Draw Dike Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EP
Received 5 Jan 2022187 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 3 Apr 2000Cluttons Close (Rear of 65 North Street) Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HD
Received 21 Jan 1997Bingham Lodge Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8ED
Received 28 Nov 2011Lutton House Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HP
Received 8 Nov 2011IVY HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LJ
Received 24 Sept 2020Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Mar 2012Land to north of Wygate Park Distributor Road Wygate Park Spalding
Received 23 Oct 19975 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 2006Rear of 19 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DA
Received 26 Aug 2022Westmere County Primary School Anne Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 18 Jun 1999Rear: 156 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding
Received 10 Nov 2017Fields Farm Spalding Gate Whaplode
Received 28 Jun 2004The Old Fire Station 24 North Street Crowland PE6 0EF
Received 19 Nov 1993Risegate House Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 26 Aug 2026Records 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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