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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Eastgate Gardens Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 1993CROWHILL FARM PIPWELL GATE SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8BA
Received 22 Jan 2015Sheaf Cottage Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding, Lincolnshire
Received 15 Dec 200447 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HG
Received 10 Jan 2011Glen House Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SE
Received 14 Sept 2012Fern Villa 40 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RB
Received 4 Jun 20203 Back Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DL
Received 5 Dec 2011HOLBEACH UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS KINGS ACADEMY HIGHBURY DRIVE HOLBEACH PE12 7QJ
Received 15 Feb 2022Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 18 May 200119 FEN GATE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XL
Received 16 Jan 2024Pecks Site Gosberton Road Surfleet
Received 1 Dec 2006FIELD VIEW 686 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JA
Received 4 Jul 201883 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 19968 Halmer Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 1992CATHERINE HOUSE MILLGATE WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SF
Received 26 Jun 2015Kestrel Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding, Lincs PE12 6DP
Received 28 Oct 2003Ferndale House Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TX
Received 17 Mar 20214 Park Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 1 Sept 2000"The Corner House" Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QN
Received 17 Jan 1994The Bungalow New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 17 Feb 2005Adjacent 339 High Road Whaplode
Received 30 Sept 2005Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen Boston
Received 3 Sept 2025Peterspoint Yard Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 4 Sept 1992Clay Lake Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Sept 2000Records 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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