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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Bungalow Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PS
Received 26 Feb 202579 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Oct 20015 Mallards Reach Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4YB
Received 12 Mar 1992Daniels Acre, Chaldean Way (Plots 64-66 and 72-87) Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Apr 1996Formerly 80 82 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5RD
Received 7 Jun 2024Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 15 Oct 2003Bendyke Farm Bendyke Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Oct 1999WILLOWGATE COTTAGE 2 THE PARKWAY SPALDING PE11 3EE
Received 16 Jan 2015Lloyds TSB Bank plc Hall Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1SF
Received 8 Mar 201327 Farrow Avenue Holbeach
Received 31 Aug 20054 Park Road Holbeach
Received 23 Jun 200514 High Street Donington
Received 7 Feb 2002Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 2000Park Lane Surfleet
Received 12 Dec 2003Unit 1 Pinnacle Close Phoenix Lane Crowland Peterborough PE6 0GB
Received 28 May 20105 Henson Close Spalding PE11 2FW
Received 21 Apr 2017Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 17 Jun 2011Delph Bank Main Street Fleet Hargate Holbeach
Received 18 Jun 1999Cranmore Lane adjacent 79 Hallgate Holbeach
Received 21 Nov 2007333 335 Bourne Road Pode Hole
Received 11 Sept 20022 Pumping Station Cottage Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs PE13 5RE
Received 11 Mar 2004Recreation Field Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jul 1996PIPWELL MANOR WASHWAY ROAD SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AY
Received 5 Dec 2014Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 1995Records 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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