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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 MILLFIELD GARDENS CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0HA
Received 16 Apr 202638 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NN
Received 12 Oct 2011186 Roman Bank Spalding
Received 5 Nov 200829 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DA
Received 22 Jul 2020The Old School House Narrow Lane Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs PE12 6SJ
Received 22 Sept 2000139 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 1994Plot 2, Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 10 Feb 1995Unit 1, Pied Calf Yard Sheep Market Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2001Adams Farm Crowland Common Crowland PE6 0HL
Received 11 Nov 201135 New Road Spalding PE11 1DN
Received 22 Apr 2026Crosskeys Farm North Drove Quadring Spalding
Received 20 Nov 2012Land Adjacent to 51 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 15 Aug 202431 FOXES LOW ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PA
Received 10 Dec 2025The Bailey Bungalow Main Road Holbeach Drove PE12 0PS
Received 23 May 2005Land west of Woolram Wygate (Wygate Park - Phase 6) Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jan 1997Bakkavor West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 2BB
Received 15 Jan 2019WORLDWIDE FRUIT LTD APPLE WAY PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3BB
Received 31 Aug 2021Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Feb 1993THE HOLLIES 145 SEAGATE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AD
Received 4 Feb 2021Caultons Field West of Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 8 Feb 2021Adj. White House Southeau Bank Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 27 Mar 1997124 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Oct 2002Off Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 10 Mar 200328 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Nov 2001Records 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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