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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Part OS 290 301 (1932) Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding
Received 1 May 1992Adjacent Frenfields Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EW
Received 27 Oct 2014The Orchards Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EL
Received 19 Dec 2024Shepherds Farm Stone Gate Wykeham Spalding
Received 18 May 200018 FEN END LANE SPALDING PE12 6AD
Received 2 May 2018Lefleys Garage Station Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LF
Received 2 Oct 2014Aspire Health and Wellbeing 27 to 29 The Crescent Spalding Lincs PE11 1AF
Received 30 Mar 2011Land to the West of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen Boston
Received 21 May 2025The Beeches Roman Bank Holbeach Bank
Received 19 Apr 2004Land adjacent 34 Sheppersons Avenue Gosberton Risegate
Received 13 Aug 2004Plots 199-361 Magellan Way Spalding
Received 10 Mar 2005Browntoft House Browntoft Lane Donington
Received 25 Mar 200336 Cathedral Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Mar 2002Plot 2, Quadring Road (Rear of 27a Quadring Road) Donington Spalding, Lincs
Received 22 Feb 19966 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6NL
Received 13 Feb 20081 HAY BARN ROAD DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EJ
Received 17 Mar 2014SEAS END HALL HALL LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LB
Received 21 Feb 202520 Bear Lane Pinchbeck PE11 3XA
Received 23 Jul 2008Ash Court Donington PE11 4XJ
Received 3 Mar 200669 POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JB
Received 6 Jan 2015Land East of Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 26 Mar 202685 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7US
Received 16 Aug 201235 BROWNLOW CRESCENT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XB
Received 17 Mar 2016Land South of Tudor Lodge Fen Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QD
Received 24 Sept 2024Records 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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