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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Penny Hill Farm Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1999NEWGATE HOCKNEY HOLE LANE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TH
Received 20 Feb 2024'New Amsterdam' Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate PE11 4EU
Received 19 Mar 2009185 RAILWAY LANE SOUTH SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9UZ
Received 9 Jul 2015143 Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Sept 1998Naylors Farm Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LG
Received 4 Mar 2015Avenue Farmhouse Avenue Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QF
Received 18 Jun 199865 Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 6 Jul 2009Off Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 29 Apr 2008SUTTON HOUSE 8 HIGH STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DB
Received 14 Jan 2021Old Fendike Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1997CROWLAND PARISH COUNCIL ROOMS HALL STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0EW
Received 19 May 2014Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6UL
Received 14 Dec 2009The Peele School 84 Little London Long Sutton
Received 22 Jun 200616 Aalsmeer Rise Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3JD
Received 17 Apr 20003-7 Station Street Spalding
Received 2 Oct 20061-2 White Hart Centre Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 1997222 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding
Received 14 Jan 200411 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 1995South Drove Spalding Common Spalding
Received 16 Jan 2001Land adj. 89 Peterspoint Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Feb 1992The Red Cow High Street Donington
Received 24 Apr 20091 THE BEECHES SPALDING PE11 1UE
Received 17 Jun 2024Land between Amstel and Park Farm Park Lane Surfleet
Received 2 Nov 2007Records 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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