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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37,162 approved · 4,538 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7BH
Received 13 Mar 2026SPALDING DENTAL SURGERY DROMEDARY LODGE CAMEL GATE SPALDING PE12 6ES
Received 22 Jan 2018Adjacent 34A Market Street Long Sutton
Received 17 Nov 20081-8 Teagans Close Spalding PE11 1TW
Received 9 Nov 202221 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 199523 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 17 May 201857 Days Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ZT
Received 13 Oct 2009Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 2000Victory Hall Main Road Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Dec 1993St John's Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jan 1994SUTTON HOUSE 8 HIGH STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DB
Received 14 Jan 2021Plot 1 off Drawdyke Sutton St James Spalding
Received 19 Nov 201941 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 28 Jan 2026NARBETH NUTTS LANE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RP
Received 3 May 2019Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Oct 2000Rear of 13 North Parade Holbeach Lincs
Received 6 Aug 19995 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AH
Received 13 Jul 200947 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6BX
Received 26 May 2011532 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DP
Received 16 Jun 2015Ash Tree House, Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 20 May 199682-84 High Street Gosberton
Received 27 Jan 2004Lloyds TSB 36-37 Hall Place Spalding
Received 18 May 2007Holly Lodge West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 9 Sept 2005W Boyes & Co Ltd Boston Road Holbeach PE12 7LR
Received 22 Jan 2009Records 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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