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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Peterborough Road Crowland
Received 6 Feb 2015Gedney Hill Farm Luttongate Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0QH
Received 4 Mar 201441 EXETER DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DY
Received 5 Dec 2016South View Community Primary School Postland Road Crowland Spalding PE6 0JA
Received 17 Dec 2025MULBERRY BARN TORRINGTON LANE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NJ
Received 9 Mar 2020Spalding Town Station Station Approach Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 1993Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 27 Jan 2000Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 199640 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 1 Jul 20086 Mawford Close Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Apr 1994Land rear 146 and 142 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 14 Oct 200561 Wignals Gate Holbeach
Received 6 Oct 200512 Tulip Fields Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6US
Received 25 Nov 2011Land adj. to 'Lea House' 29 River Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jul 1992Land Adjacent to Cheal House Cheal Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BA
Received 5 Oct 2026Horseshoe Garage Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3BE
Received 9 May 200181 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JQ
Received 9 Jul 2020Former Risegate Farm Outbuildings Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 20 Aug 2012Rear of 12 Market Place Donington Spalding PE11 4ST
Received 21 Apr 2015258 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DA
Received 14 Oct 201034 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 2000Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 18 Aug 20253 York Ride Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9ET
Received 12 Jun 19974 Black Barn Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9NE
Received 23 Dec 2009Records 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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