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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 13, Poachers Hide High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 1 Apr 1997Area of Land Encompassing The Beeches Horsehsoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 2016Harrington Hall Nursery Little Marsh Lane Fleet, Spalding Lincs. PE12 8NW
Received 26 Jul 2000Total Worldfresh Ltd Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YR
Received 20 Jan 2016Church of St Mary Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UB
Received 19 Jul 201191 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 19 Oct 20168 Church Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 4 May 200418 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 199627 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 26 Aug 2009Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AQ
Received 24 Sept 1993Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Mar 1992Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YR
Received 14 Apr 2015"Sundorne" 1 Broome Way Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JZ
Received 23 Oct 2002Land adj 156 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 30 May 2003The Bridge Caravan Site The Common Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HJ
Received 9 Sept 2009FAIRVIEW FARM 19 MILL DROVE SOUTH COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6FS
Received 24 Jul 201842 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 19 Jun 20087 WYCHE AVENUE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0LL
Received 24 Feb 202129 DELAMORE WAY LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DX
Received 30 Sept 201517 ALBERT STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DN
Received 24 Jul 2022Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jun 1996Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 10 May 1995Cleylands Burr Lane Spalding
Received 29 Oct 200265 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 26 Jan 2017Records 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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