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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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24 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PN
Received 17 Oct 1991121 CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4QD
Received 21 Apr 2021Spalding Monkshouse Primary School Pennygate Spalding
Received 16 Jul 2007Northgate Mill, Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Apr 199718 Reform Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AN
Received 2 Feb 1993Off Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PJ
Received 13 Feb 2020Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jan 1994Land at junction of Wardentree Lane/ Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UU
Received 9 Mar 2020Plot 2 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EP
Received 27 Nov 2013Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Nov 199632 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 10 Apr 2012DC/661/4 Millfield Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 1993Lilburn Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Dec 1992Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BN
Received 10 Mar 198959-61 Broadway Crowland Spalding Lincs PE6 0BH
Received 3 Nov 2016Plot 2 Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AU
Received 27 Sept 1995Land at Counter Drain Drove (Between Rose Villa & Beehive Cottage) Tongue End Spalding
Received 15 Oct 200142 Wargate Way Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HE
Received 1 Feb 2010The Limes Double Street Spalding
Received 4 Nov 2008Plot 54 Rear of 43 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 2 Apr 2001Partridge Grove Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Lincs
Received 27 Jun 200028 Keightley Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8BE
Received 10 Jul 2007Land at former British Sugar Factory West of West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 2 Oct 2002West View Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding
Received 22 Apr 1993Records 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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