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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Woolhall Farm Wykeham Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 2003Elsoms Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3JG
Received 4 Apr 20143 Alderlands Close Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BS
Received 6 Feb 2006Rear of Egmond Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NP
Received 22 Apr 2024Bank House Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding, Lincs PE12 9YS
Received 12 May 1999Southview 103 Dog Drove North Holbeach Drove
Received 8 May 2006Land at rear of 32 Main Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 199761 Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HN
Received 5 Jun 2013Land at 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 6 Sept 201017/18 Market Place & The White Hart Hotel Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Apr 199716 Moons Green Moulton Spalding
Received 11 Mar 2011The Old Petrol Station Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 27 Jun 19979 - 11 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 25 Oct 200724 Hardwick Close Crowland PE6 0FP
Received 29 Jan 202519 Foreman Way Crowland Lincs PE6 0DJ
Received 6 Nov 2012Barling Deer Farm Barling Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 1994Granite House Chapelgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BJ
Received 8 Apr 2014Site of Springfields Restaurant Camel Gate Spalding
Received 14 Feb 2002Wyevale Garden Centres Ltd Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 14 Feb 2020Plot 3, Cherrycroft (Phase 7A) Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 1998The Warehouse, Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1999Building rear of White House Farm Sarahgate Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QE
Received 16 Aug 2010Former agricultural building Jasmine Crescent Holbeach Spalding PE12 7FW
Received 18 Mar 2025Power Station Site East Nene Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 17 Mar 1997Records 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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