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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Edgefield Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6RQ
Received 2 Sept 20048 Barbers Drove Crowland PE6 0BE
Received 6 May 200411 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PN
Received 3 May 2007Gosberton House School Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EW
Received 31 May 2013Creewood House Creewood Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BN
Received 13 Apr 200412 Albert Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 7 Feb 2001Lincoln Co-Operative Society West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Apr 1994Land at Norfolk House Farm, Off B1359 Gedney Marsh Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PB
Received 6 Nov 201915 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1XA
Received 19 Oct 2010Land off: James Road Crowland
Received 14 Jan 20191 Beechfield Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1UN
Received 9 Oct 2013Land to East of Sutton Bridge and North West of Walpole St Peter
Received 12 May 2015rear of 59 High Street Gosberton
Received 21 Feb 2002Land adjacent 1 Youngs Row Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 2001Fleet Water Gardens Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Mar 2000Land off Churchgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Sept 199389 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YA
Received 22 Mar 2021The Bungalow Camelgate Spalding PE12 6HA
Received 15 Sept 2026Oxford Gardens Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 201711 Green Lane Spalding
Received 3 Mar 2006The Black Swan Public House 12 New Road Spalding
Received 18 Apr 2007St Heliers, Market Place Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 1997Meat Plant, Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 19975 Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ZN
Received 28 Aug 2018Records 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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