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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Millhouse, St Ives Cross Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 1995FAIRVIEW FARM 19 MILL DROVE SOUTH COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6FS
Received 5 Oct 2018Cluttons Close Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HD
Received 28 Jan 200019 Campains Lane Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3EX
Received 5 Mar 2001Pinchbeck Business Park Glenside South Pinchbeck
Received 28 Oct 2002179 Rookery Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Dec 1994ABBEY PRINT LTD ENTERPRISE WAY PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TZ
Received 23 Mar 2017Wyeplants Ltd Roman Bank Spalding Lincs PE12 6EY
Received 4 Jan 1993Mill Drove South Cowbit Spalding
Received 29 Dec 201495 Stonegate Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Sept 2006Land rear 10-26 Postland Road 1-25 Cloot Drove Crowland
Received 11 Aug 20086 WELBOURNE LANE NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AE
Received 28 Nov 2014Hillegom Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UF
Received 27 Oct 20109 Rainton Court Spalding Lincs PE12 6BD
Received 19 Jul 2004Bull and Monkey Public House Churchgate Spalding
Received 9 Oct 2006Villa Farm Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Sept 199474 Clay Lake Spalding
Received 8 Feb 2007Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 1998St Albans House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XR
Received 23 Nov 2012Northorpe Farm Northorpe Road Donington
Received 22 Nov 2006Crown Farm 4 Stockwell Gate West Whaplode Spalding PE12 6WG
Received 15 Jan 201810 LUDLOW GARDENS QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QH
Received 14 Sept 2020Broadgate Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 1998'Greystones', Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jul 1997Records 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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