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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Rowans Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SA
Received 24 Jun 2002Swindlers Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 1993Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 30 Mar 1992THE OLD VICARAGE ST MARKS ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8DZ
Received 13 Aug 2026Clay Lake Spalding Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 1995Roadside verge Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 16 Sept 2009Crowland Methodist Church Reform Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AN
Received 30 Apr 1993Cobgate Farm Centre West Cobgate Moulton, Spalding Lincs. PE12 6QN
Received 13 Mar 200030 SORREL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3GN
Received 21 May 20251 Osier Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Sept 20005A Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XA
Received 8 Sept 2008Ashtree Farm Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns, Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 8RR
Received 25 Jan 200078 London Road Spalding PE11 2TN
Received 4 May 2021Land at Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE11 0XF
Received 28 Dec 2016104 ROMAN ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING
Received 13 Jun 20181 CHURCHILL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2RL
Received 13 Oct 201643 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UB
Received 7 Nov 2019School Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 199795 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING
Received 15 Feb 2016Wygate Foundation Nursery School Spalding Primary School Woolram Wygate Spalding PE11 1PB
Received 12 Mar 2013'Greystones' Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EP
Received 30 Mar 2000Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen Boston Lincolnshire
Received 26 Feb 2025Holbeach House Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 31 Mar 2008Former Red Cow Hotel 8 High Street Donington PE11 4TA
Received 5 Apr 2016Records 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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