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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Plot 54, Rear of 43 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 4 Oct 2000Land off Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 22 Mar 2001Hollyhock Cottage Drove Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SB
Received 2 Sept 2010Hallgate Cottage Kingsgate Gedney Spalding
Received 4 Apr 2001Treetops The Raceground Spalding, Lincs PE11 3AP
Received 5 Jul 1999Bank Farm Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns
Received 8 May 20033 Monkshouse Court Spalding Lincs PE11 3YS
Received 2 Sept 2013Adjacent to 76 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JR
Received 23 Sept 2014CHERRY TREES HERDGATE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UP
Received 5 Feb 2018Foots Drove Delgate Farm Off Moulton Chapel Road Moulton ChapeL Spalding
Received 11 Dec 1992'Ostler's Cottage' Church End Quadring PE11 4SQ
Received 28 Apr 2009The Parish of Surfleet
Received 16 Apr 2004Whitwells Garage Burr Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 2001Land at former swimming pool Town Dam Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 1995Plot 1 adjacent Carlton Lodge Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TY
Received 6 Aug 2026Land at Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Apr 2000The Walnuts 23 Quadring Road Donington
Received 24 Oct 20062 Pied Calf Yard Spalding
Received 26 Jun 2001Delph Bank Touring Park Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8LL
Received 23 Nov 2023Land between River Bank and Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 5 Dec 2006Land north of Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 19945 ARMSTRONGS CLOSE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JG
Received 17 Jul 2015Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 199616 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6AE
Received 27 Mar 2014Records 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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