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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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43 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JB
Received 9 Jul 2001DALSPA 45 DELPH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BX
Received 12 Oct 2023Land and buildings at Cowpers Gate Long Sutton
Received 1 Mar 2004Leamlands Farm Leamlands Lane Lutton Marsh Spalding PE12 9NS
Received 15 Mar 2023Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4SJ
Received 20 Dec 2021Holbeach Weight Training Club Allison Avenue Holbeach PE12 7BQ
Received 21 Aug 2006Outside Black Swan PH New Road Spalding
Received 25 Mar 1994120 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EE
Received 17 Oct 201929 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 26 Jul 2004The Factory Shop Ltd 51 Fleet Street Holbeach
Received 16 Oct 2003The Cottage Beck Bank Quadring Fen Spalding PE11 4RA
Received 10 May 2013Sycamore Farm Whaplode Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 13 May 1991Haycroft Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 1997The Manor House 5 East Street Crowland Spalding PE6 0EN
Received 16 Jul 2026Adj Woodbyne Cottage St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8DZ
Received 2 Jul 2025Adj. Grasmere Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Nov 19939 CLOUGH ROAD HOLBEACH CLOUGH SPALDING PE12 8BW
Received 16 Apr 2015Spalding Sub-Station Spalding Drove/Clay Lake Spalding
Received 7 Jun 200546 The Tilney Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Aug 200149 Ashby Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6QR
Received 29 Sept 2025North Bank of Risegate Eau Immediately Adjacent to Car Park of the Black Horse Pub Gosberton Risegate
Received 9 Sept 201317 Westfield Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 199452 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 7 Jan 201444 BAULKINS DROVE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JX
Received 27 Sept 2023Records 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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