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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church Way (Plots 2-6 inclusive) Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 1996Land adjacent: 1a Northorpe Road Donington Spalding PE11 4XU
Received 30 Aug 2017The Queen Inn 49 Station Street Donington Spalding
Received 10 May 2000Counter Drain Drove Tongue End Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jun 1999Adjacent: Burr Lodge Burr Lane Spalding PE12 6AZ
Received 19 Apr 2018Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 200128 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DF
Received 15 May 20171A Crosslands Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TU
Received 21 Apr 200921 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jan 19951 PUMPING STATION COTTAGES STATION ROAD TYDD GOTE WISBECH PE13 5RE
Received 20 Jul 2020The Old Methodist Church Allenbys Chase Sutton Bridge Spalding, Lincs
Received 6 Nov 2000GREEN ACRES PARK ROPERS GATE GEDNEY SPALDING
Received 1 Mar 2019GENESIS RESIDENTIAL HOME 2 STATION STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UQ
Received 8 Apr 2019Land off Harvester Way Crowland
Received 28 Dec 2001Glen Cottage South Fen Road Tongue End Spalding Lincs PE10 0DH
Received 15 Mar 2004Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1997Ayscoughfee Gardens Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2RA
Received 12 Jan 2026Adjacent to existing farmhouse The Eaudikes Bicker Boston
Received 20 Jan 1992160 Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 200169 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SD
Received 12 Feb 2004Land off Cloot Drove Crowland
Received 26 Feb 20021 Chancery Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 200131 Fen Road Holbeach
Received 5 Sept 200721 Westlode Street Spalding
Received 14 Mar 2005Records 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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