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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 2, The Sidings Off Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 1994Hovenden House Cheshire Home Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Nov 19985 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4ET
Received 4 Mar 2004Crowland South View CP School Reform Street Crowland PE6 0AN
Received 24 Sept 1998Yard and Offices Haycroft Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8LB
Received 7 Sept 2009'Little Ripples' 13 Castlefields Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 1997Weston Hills Road B1165 Low Fulney Spalding
Received 2 Jun 2003Roberts Supermarket and Post Office Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 1995Oldacres Mill High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jul 199914 Hix Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7EN
Received 6 Apr 201125 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QQ
Received 28 Mar 2008THE COACH HOUSE 23 MINSMERE CLOSE SPALDING PE11 3PD
Received 14 Aug 20196 COALBEACH LANE SOUTH SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DE
Received 16 Sept 201428 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QD
Received 9 Nov 2021New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 27 Feb 2001West Pinchbeck Playing Field Leaveslake Drove West Pinchbeck
Received 3 Apr 2007268 Luttongate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs PE12 0LH
Received 13 Aug 2007ST MORITZ 147 STOCKHOUSE LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AT
Received 17 Apr 2026Adjacent 59-61 Broadway Crowland Spalding PE6 0BH
Received 18 Feb 2015West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Mar 19982A Goxhill Avenue Donington PE11 4SZ
Received 3 Mar 2009LITTLE LODGE FARM CLOOT DROVE CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JH
Received 15 Aug 202219 Upper Welland Terrace London Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 14 Sept 2017Charnwood Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding, Lincs
Received 20 Apr 1999Records 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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