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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Formerly Cobgate Foods West Cobgate Moulton
Received 18 Oct 200647 - 49 High Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 2002Spalding Railway Station Winsover Road Spalding
Received 22 Mar 2005Magellan Way Spalding
Received 30 Aug 2006Fen House New Fen Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PZ
Received 3 Nov 200350 BROADWAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0AW
Received 22 Jan 2015Town Hall The Vista Churchgate Spalding, Lincs
Received 15 Jan 1991Barrington Mills Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Feb 1994Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 13 Apr 2004St Johns Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 19955/7 Chapel Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 1992Baulkins Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JU
Received 19 Sept 2014St Guthlac's High School Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JA
Received 21 Apr 199470 Westlode Street Former Finnings Site Spalding
Received 6 Nov 2006Charles Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9TA
Received 16 Nov 200917 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jun 2001Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1992Land off Kemp Street Crowland Lincs PE6 0HE
Received 27 Jul 1999WEST VIEW TYDD ROAD WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QA
Received 11 Jul 201712 Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8SD
Received 18 Nov 2016Reading Room Church Street Holbeach
Received 23 Jul 2001EYE FARM 168 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 27 Jun 2018Land adj. 2 Patriot Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1YA
Received 26 Mar 2018MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 27 Mar 2014Records 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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