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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 at Eastlands rear of 38 to 40 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 31 Jan 20121 River Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 20044 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Oct 199874 Roman Bank Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LB
Received 23 Apr 2001The Paddocks Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns PE12 8SQ
Received 2 Sept 2011Land off Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TD
Received 29 May 201826 Westminster Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Nov 2013Mill Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 19939 Cleveland Close Spalding PE12 6BE
Received 2 Feb 2017Land between 1 3 Stukeley Road Holbeach
Received 25 Jan 2005The Cottage Hallgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jul 20015 Garners Lane Wingland Sutton Bridge
Received 14 Jan 2002The Garage Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8LH
Received 7 Oct 1991Orchard Bungalow Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3EN
Received 14 Mar 200630 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 28 Nov 2011180 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 5 May 2021Red House Jarvis Gate Sutton St. James Lincs
Received 28 Jul 2000Country Kids Day Nursery Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PS
Received 26 May 2026The Cottage Greendyke Tydd St Mary
Received 15 Oct 2004Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 8 Aug 2007Royal Mail Letter Office The Crescent Spalding
Received 3 Feb 1993COTTAGE 3 STATION ROAD TYDD GOTE WISBECH PE13 5QA
Received 17 Aug 2016WYNDCATCH 10 KELLET GATE SPALDING PE12 6EH
Received 10 Apr 2019Parkers Yard, Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1996Records 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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