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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PP
Received 7 Jun 2017Playing Fields to University Academy Holbeach Off Park Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 7 Jul 2015CARDWELL LODGE DAWSMERE ROAD DAWSMERE SPALDING PE12 9NQ
Received 10 Jan 202019 QUADRING ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NB
Received 29 Nov 2016Trinity Cottage Church Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QJ
Received 11 May 2011Postland Road Crowland Lincs
Received 18 Jan 19993 Back Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DL
Received 22 Aug 201121 THE BRAMBLES HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JU
Received 9 May 2017BT Exchange Winsover Road Spalding
Received 13 Sept 2004The Sessions House Sheep Market Spalding Lincs PE11 1BB
Received 19 Jun 2017Grange Farm Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs
Received 17 May 2011ROSE VILLA 32 ALBERT STREET SPALDING PE11 2LF
Received 20 Oct 2015St James Farm Postland Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LT
Received 7 Jun 20106 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JF
Received 31 Oct 2003Plot 66, Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Nov 1992Puddleducks Day Nursery Escallonia 3 Holland Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1UL
Received 12 Jul 2010Hallgate Cottage Kingsgate Gedney Dyke
Received 9 Apr 2002Plot 1, Cherrycroft (Phase 7A) Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 199824 Commercial Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HA
Received 28 Jul 200490 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 21 Jun 200730 Foreman Way Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0DJ
Received 16 May 2005The Old Packing Shed 66 Backgate Cowbit PE12 6AP
Received 14 Sept 2006The Elizabethan Centre Parsons Lane Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 18 Feb 1998Mowbray House 49 Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs PE12 0AJ
Received 31 Mar 2017Records 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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