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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
WARRENS REST CAPES ENTRY COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AG
Received 30 Sept 2022Adjacent Harrow Farm House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas
Received 12 Jun 2006Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End
Received 20 Nov 2003ST NICHOLAS CHURCH LOWGATE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HP
Received 13 Mar 2014Former Nursery, Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 19958 Water Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1994Willow Tree Farm Markillie Lane Wisbech Road Long Sutton PE12 9AW
Received 2 Dec 200911 Millfield Gardens Crowland PE6 0HA
Received 23 Jun 2004Greylands Drain Bank Cowbit PE12 6AF
Received 23 Apr 2003THE COTTAGE EAST ROAD TYDD GOTE SPALDING PE13 5QF
Received 15 Feb 2017Elsoms Seeds Ltd Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QG
Received 4 Jan 2013New Buildings Eastern Road Holbeach St Matthews Spalding PE12 8ES
Received 29 Jul 2025104 Park Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QY
Received 14 May 20109 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SA
Received 4 Mar 2019Land to North of Fengate Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 18 Nov 2025Ivy Cottage Lutton Gowts Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 199163 POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JB
Received 4 May 2016Horseshoe Farm Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3BE
Received 11 Jul 2006Rookery Farm Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding
Received 12 May 2011Plot 7, Bramble Grange Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Apr 1992Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jun 2000The Smallholding Millgate Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 1992Adj. 48 Station Street Donington Spalding
Received 16 May 200171 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 10 Oct 2006Records 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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