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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Churchyard Church Walk Holbeach Spalding
Received 23 Nov 2012Holbeach Road (Junction of A16/A151) South East Quadrant Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Mar 1998Land 102 and 105 London Road Spalding
Received 26 Jan 2007Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0UA
Received 23 Jul 202151 THE TENTERS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AR
Received 26 Mar 2018Park Road Spalding
Received 26 May 2006LUTTONGATE FARM 15 LUTTONGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING
Received 14 Oct 2020'Keepers Cottage', Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 2000Hollylodge West Marsh Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UW
Received 26 Jun 2002Chandlers Farm Equipment Ltd Boston Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7NJ
Received 18 Jul 2012Alderlands Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AA
Received 23 Nov 1993'Rose Cottage' Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 25 Jun 200136 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DF
Received 8 Feb 2021Land west of Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 1992Former Bull and Monkie Public House Churchgate Spalding Lincs PE11 2RA
Received 24 Jul 2012The Chase Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 24 Aug 2004Pennyhill Farm Peartree House Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8DW
Received 19 Feb 199718 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 26 Jan 20153 Cassons Close Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DX
Received 19 Sept 2003SUTTON HOUSE 8 HIGH STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DB
Received 7 Mar 202233 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EE
Received 4 May 2000St Johns Road Spalding Lincs
Received 11 May 1993Phase 3, Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 1993Bottle and Glass Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Apr 1995Records 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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