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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
37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
OPEN FIELDS BARN DELGATE BANK WESTON SPALDING PE12 6DW
Received 25 Oct 2021String of Horses Public House 3 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LR
Received 19 May 1995Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 2001Bramley House Hospital Drove Little Sutton Spalding PE12 9EL
Received 16 Aug 20111A Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LU
Received 21 Apr 2008Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UP
Received 19 Jan 201121 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Sept 1999Riverside House, Bloodfold Farm Ravens Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8SP
Received 12 Aug 202443 Hall Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7JA
Received 15 Oct 2025The Lion, Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 199722 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NL
Received 5 Aug 2019Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Mar 1995St Norberts Catholic Primary School Tollgate Spalding
Received 20 Oct 2005Plot Adj. 15 Swapcoat Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 28 Feb 2001Bridge Road/Church Gate Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Oct 1999Land at Water Lane Nursery Low Road Spalding
Received 22 Jul 2026Bens Gate Fleet Spalding
Received 24 Sept 1992Corner Farm, Banks Drove Cuckoo Bridge Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3BJ
Received 16 Feb 1998Ashtree Farm Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RR
Received 14 Sept 202356 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 11 May 2010Cherry Tree Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 1996THE POPLARS 134 MAIN ROAD QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PW
Received 16 Feb 2026Land west of McDonalds Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding
Received 26 Mar 2019Albert Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DN
Received 15 Dec 2003Records 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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