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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
BEACON FARM WISEMANS GATE WESTON SPALDING
Received 1 Dec 2020Land off Crease Drove Crowland
Received 27 Nov 2020Bowmore House Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 2001Hazeldene Langary Road Gedney Hill
Received 29 Jun 2006Rear of 8 High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DU
Received 13 Sept 2024Willow Cottage Guanockgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1993Falklands Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 1994Wardentree Court Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 23 Dec 2005Broadgate House 5 Westlode Street Spalding PE11 2AF
Received 1 Dec 20175 Nene Terrace and adjoining land Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0LD
Received 1 Aug 20057 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EG
Received 27 Jul 1998Lime Tree Cottage 14 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs. PE11 4PU
Received 31 May 200155 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Aug 1996Harrington Hall Farm Little Marsh Lane Fleet Spalding PE12 8NW
Received 12 Aug 2026Council Offices Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XE
Received 2 Feb 2011Fenland Airfield Holbeach St Johns
Received 18 Nov 200214 Halmer Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Aug 2001Land to East of Chaffinch Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 8 Oct 202470 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 199316 Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding LN9 5NE
Received 17 Apr 200133 Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PN
Received 29 Feb 2008Grove House 10 Gallery Walk Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XG
Received 22 May 2019Bifrons Cottage 52 Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 May 1999Green Cottage Huntsgate Gedney Broadgate
Received 13 Feb 2002Records 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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