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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Washway Road Holbeach Spalding, Lincs
Received 20 Apr 1999Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Apr 199241 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 2013The Old Filling Station Main Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 1ET
Received 4 Sept 2002The Crown Hotel Car Park West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LW
Received 22 May 2018Welbourne Lane Holbeach
Received 31 Aug 200537 Halmer Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2EE
Received 13 Jul 201631 Spring Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 1992Furinish Pinstock Lane Gedney Spalding PE12 0BT
Received 29 Apr 2018FERN VILLA 40 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RB
Received 10 Jan 2017Land South: Ivy Cottage Jekils Bank (Fronting Little Dog Drove) Little Dog Drove Holbeach St John Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 201860 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 2004The Bungalow Bank Farm Common Road Moulton Common
Received 30 Jun 1992Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 25 Apr 20054 GOXHILL AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SZ
Received 23 May 2017DECOY FARM SPALDING ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH
Received 5 Sept 2022Parishes of Crowland Deeping St Nicholas and Postland
Received 15 May 200719 Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding
Received 25 Jun 2001Surfleet Seas End CP School Station Road Surfleet Spalding, Lincs
Received 15 Nov 1994Land North West of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 28 Mar 2022China City 20 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1EG
Received 19 Aug 201692 Roman Bank Long Sutton Spalding
Received 2 Mar 19921 Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UD
Received 24 Jan 2006230 BARRIER BANK COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AL
Received 18 Nov 2015Records 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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