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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End Surfleet
Received 25 Sept 2001Beech House 20 Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 31 Oct 2024The Old Vicarage 8 Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 31 Jul 2008Land Adj. Sea Breeze Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PJ
Received 24 Sept 202317 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Aug 1996Fourways Dog Drove South Holbeach Drove
Received 22 May 2007108 Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 199419 HOLLAND ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UL
Received 20 Jul 2015Land adjacent Parsonage Halmergate Spalding
Received 5 Jan 2004N A Witteman Nurseries West Road South Drove Spalding Common
Received 26 Nov 2008Browntoft House Browntoft Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TQ
Received 16 Jul 1997Ashleys Barn Plank Drove Crowland PE6 0BY
Received 2 Apr 2020Yellow House Farm Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 4EL
Received 5 Dec 20027 WESTMORELAND ROAD MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PU
Received 12 Jan 2023Cranmore Strongs Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding PE12 8ST
Received 3 Feb 2017Hawthorn Bank (Next to Vicarage) Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Feb 19926 Milfoil Lane Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6XF
Received 6 Jun 20137 Priory Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XF
Received 20 Apr 2004Argus House 56 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2XT
Received 5 Mar 20264 Barbers Drove North Crowland PE6 0BE
Received 7 Oct 202432-42 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LL
Received 11 Jan 1995Chapel Side Old Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 20 Mar 2003The Mermaid Inn Gosberton Road Surfleet
Received 10 Jan 2006The Homestead Broad Lane Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8BG
Received 26 Jan 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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