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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land rear of 76-86 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 10 May 1999Plots 553-561, Darwin Close Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1997The Rams 216 Nene Terrace Crowland Lincs PE6 0LD
Received 9 Sept 201358 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YA
Received 11 Jan 20184 DANIELS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DP
Received 9 Aug 2022LABURNUM COTTAGE 70 BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AQ
Received 19 Sept 2016Phase 2, site off Royce Road Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 19925 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 12 May 1994Seagate Hall Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 22 Apr 199946 HIGH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING
Received 5 Jun 2017Jack Buck (Farms) Ltd Green Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LT
Received 14 Oct 201938 SOUTH STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AJ
Received 23 Nov 202112A Park Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 2 Jun 1992Plot 1, Willders Garth Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1997Land Opposite 56-60 Reform Street Crowland PE6 0AN
Received 25 Jun 20211 Park Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AF
Received 18 Jun 202687 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9LF
Received 21 Jul 2025Plots 1-46, Holland Park Off Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Apr 1997Bellesmere Farm Peak Hill Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AW
Received 17 Mar 2014Caldene Clough Road Gosberton Clough Spalding PE11 4JN
Received 30 Sept 2024Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 1993Holbeach St Marks Playing Field Main Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 11 Aug 2004BRESBY HOUSE NEW ROAD QUADRING EAUDIKE SPALDING PE11 4QB
Received 11 May 2021132 Northorpe Road Donington
Received 24 Jul 2007Records 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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