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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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The Bell Inn Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding
Received 26 Aug 2010Four Winds Tydd Low Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AR
Received 2 Mar 20226 The Crescent Spalding Lincs.
Received 8 Feb 200099 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jun 1995The Orchards Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EL
Received 9 Apr 2026Winters Lane Storage Winters Lane Long Sutton
Received 6 Feb 1995Nook House Poplars Farm Eastern Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 16 Nov 200714 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DF
Received 26 Jun 2020Gee Almshouses 18 and 20 London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 19 Mar 2013Site of Holmlea Main Road Gedney Drove End
Received 29 Oct 2002The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End
Received 20 Aug 2001Plots 1 & 2 Roman Bank Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs PE12 0AR
Received 7 Oct 1991Land off James Road Crowland Spalding
Received 24 Oct 201910 EVERGREEN CLOSE SPALDING PE12 6BF
Received 20 Apr 2023THE VICARAGE 13 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DA
Received 27 Feb 2018Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Mar 1998Lilac House Herring Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ST
Received 16 Mar 2025BAHN-MAI OXCROFT BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TY
Received 12 Jun 2023Poplar Farm Austendyke Road Weston Hills PE12 6BZ
Received 11 Jul 200576 London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 2004Adjacent: THIMBLE COTTAGE 158 SIX HOUSE BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QG
Received 16 Mar 2023West Drove South Gedney Hill
Received 28 Mar 2008Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LX
Received 10 Jun 2010Off Farrow Avenue Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DG
Received 14 Sept 2022Records 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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