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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
87 Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jul 1995Land at Manor Farm Holbeach
Received 17 Apr 2019THE BEECHES 31 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NL
Received 23 Nov 2022Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 1994Site for Spalding Power Station (Former British Sugar Factory) West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 7 Aug 200127 Farrow Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DG
Received 31 Oct 2012Red Cow Hotel High Street Donington Spalding
Received 8 Dec 2020Akita Place Clay Lake Spalding Lincs PE12 6BL
Received 29 Jul 2019Land north of Wardentree Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 1999The Willows Deeping High Bank Crowland PE6 0DB
Received 10 May 2001Trafford Yard Hall Bank Tydd St Giles
Received 24 Jun 2004Glen House Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3SA
Received 10 Nov 2009Plot 1, 42 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HE
Received 5 Aug 201315 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 1995Adj. 48 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 10 May 2021RUSHFIELD JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EU
Received 27 Feb 2018THE CHAIN BRIDGE FORGE HIGH STREET SPALDING PE11 1TX
Received 4 Aug 202220 Bowditch Road Spalding PE11 2QF
Received 4 Dec 2018Adj Lambleys Mill Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 18 Apr 2002Land North of Roman Bank and East of Middle Marsh Road at Red House Farm Holbeach Bank Spalding PE12 8BY
Received 7 Feb 2023107 NORTH STREET CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EG
Received 25 Jul 2014Land off Pennytoft Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PQ
Received 15 Dec 2011Land off Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough
Received 28 Jan 2021Boeflora Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XY
Received 29 May 2013Records 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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