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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Langwith Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HQ
Received 9 Feb 2010Camel Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jan 1997Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Feb 200031 Beccelm Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AG
Received 19 Jan 2010Fen Road (N E Gray & Son) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Dec 19923 Hospital Drove Little Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EL
Received 13 Jul 2009Long Sutton Butterfly and Wildlife Park Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LE
Received 6 Aug 2009Land off Main Road Quadring Spalding PE11 4PJ
Received 31 Mar 2025Ash Tree Nursery 72 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AQ
Received 25 Oct 1999Rear of 92 - 94 North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EF
Received 9 Jan 2026Spalding Energy Expansion Limited West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 2BB
Received 8 Aug 2017Hocklesgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Dec 1998Plot 2 Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Apr 2000324 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding
Received 20 Feb 20069 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EA
Received 20 Dec 2010Off Carrington Drove Crowland
Received 20 May 202568 Middle Marsh Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8DU
Received 30 Nov 2007Greenacre Garnsgate Road Long Sutton
Received 19 Jun 20073 Abbots Way Spalding Lincs PE11 1JS
Received 1 Apr 199845 FLEET STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AG
Received 23 Nov 202088 Little London Spalding
Received 14 Apr 200496 Wignals Gate Holbeach
Received 28 Feb 2005The Hollies 69a Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 28 Jul 2008HAWTHORN COTTAGE GLENSIDE NORTH PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3SD
Received 25 Jan 2019Records 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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