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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site adjacent: 30 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 6 Mar 2018Land: Church Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LL
Received 19 Dec 201756 MILL LANE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TS
Received 12 Jan 2024151 Boston Road North Holbeach
Received 12 Jan 200479A Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DP
Received 7 Nov 2006Beck Farm House Fen Road Donington Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Sept 2000Haycroft Lane Fleet
Received 23 Sept 200364 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 6 Dec 1999192 WESTHORPE ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4EN
Received 21 May 2019The Gables Millgate Road Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs PE12 6SD
Received 10 Nov 200948 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LB
Received 1 Mar 2006Land East of Crease Drove Crowland
Received 14 Jun 202138 Mansell Close Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 1998Pear Tree Farm 153 St James Road Long Sutton
Received 8 Mar 2002Unit 5 The Flaxmill Flaxmill Lane Pinchbeck
Received 22 Jul 200440 HAYWAIN DRIVE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3TQ
Received 29 Nov 2023Rutland Cottage, Millgate Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Oct 1997Ranbys Corner 26 Chapel Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AR
Received 17 Apr 2025ST PAULS PRIMARY SCHOOL QUEENS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2JQ
Received 17 Apr 20248 Welland Place London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 6 Dec 2005Bridge Street/Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Dec 199443 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JB
Received 21 Jan 2002Old Brickyard Farmhouse Peartree House Road Penny Hill Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8DW
Received 2 Oct 2006Former Railway Yard, Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 1995Records 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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