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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Sycamore Farm Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 10 May 1993TOWN FARM COTTAGE PENNYHILL ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8DN
Received 17 Jun 2026'Paynton' Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding
Received 14 Jun 200110 Meadow Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3LZ
Received 10 May 2006Land on North side of Low Lane Holbeach
Received 25 Sept 20071 Vine Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1AN
Received 24 Jun 201123 Love Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jul 199513 Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DE
Received 27 May 2009The Bungalow Common Road Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0UF
Received 14 Mar 2012Plot 4 Cross Street Holbeach Lincs
Received 12 Jun 1998Land at the Junction of Wardentree Lane/Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 4 Feb 202033 The Chase Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RS
Received 3 Nov 2010Adj. 36 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TD
Received 7 Jul 2021Cheesil Lodge Stockwell Gate Whaplode
Received 5 Nov 200123 ABBOTS WAY SPALDING PE11 1JS
Received 1 Jun 202616 Woods Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 1999Plot 9 Chapel Gardens Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 19981 Fulney Lane North Spalding PE12 6EP
Received 11 Sept 2025Adjacent Sycamore Cottage Green Lane Donington
Received 18 Feb 2008Land to rear 37 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech Cambs
Received 9 Jan 1992Land adjacent: 1 River Bank Spalding PE11 3AA
Received 8 Jun 2016VICARAGE FARM 34 PARSON DROVE WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QW
Received 19 Apr 2016Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 1992Land off Dean Close/Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Mar 2020Records 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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