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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Middle Road/Malten Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Aug 1997Land at Harvester Way Crowland Peterborough PE6 0GB
Received 9 Sept 202117 MILFOIL LANE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6XF
Received 1 Jun 2021Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 23 Mar 1993STATION HOUSE STATION ROAD GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0DD
Received 25 Jan 2017The Gardeners Building Centre Town Farm Penny Hill Holbeach PE12 8DN
Received 23 May 201118 Fleet Road Industrial Estate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8LY
Received 21 May 2014Greenbanks Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn PE12 8JD
Received 31 May 200631 Royce Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1996Minerva Farm Lowgate Road Tydd St. Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 12 Feb 199217 - 18 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SU
Received 9 Jul 2019SYCAMORE HOUSE 2 BEECHCROFT GARDENS CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0DT
Received 17 Apr 2023Land off Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen
Received 15 Jun 2006Plot B adj. The Hawthorns Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs.
Received 4 Aug 20006, 7 & 8 High Street Spalding
Received 15 Jun 1992'Marylands' Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 8BX
Received 29 Jul 20099 Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Dec 199319 Red Lion Street Spalding
Received 1 Nov 200119 South Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AH
Received 9 Jun 199311 Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12
Received 28 Jan 2002Land adjacent Horseshoe Garage Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 30 Apr 200747 Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0AL
Received 23 Apr 2004LANSEN NURSERY HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING PE12 6JR
Received 4 May 202151 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1999Records 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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