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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Adjacent 141 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 28 Feb 2008Sundown 24 Plank Drove Crowland PE6 0BY
Received 23 Sept 200326 High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DY
Received 17 Nov 2020Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PZ
Received 30 Nov 2011WHITEGATE FULNEY LANE NORTH SPALDING PE12 6EP
Received 16 Oct 201846 Aintree Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 3BS
Received 21 Oct 2005Plot 5, Westbourne Gardens Off Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 199411 Main Road Tongue End Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 2006The Rising Sun Pit Lane Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PJ
Received 31 Aug 2021Lefleys Garage Station Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LF
Received 30 Oct 2013Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 199614 Manor Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LY
Received 18 Oct 1996Site between Wygate Park and Monks House Lane Spalding
Received 20 Oct 2004Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JP
Received 9 Jan 2012Former Offices to Coach Depot High Street Gosberton
Received 22 Nov 20015 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NL
Received 7 Feb 200596 NORTH STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EF
Received 7 Aug 20242 Tointon Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1GS
Received 18 Jun 201014 Wren Close Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3DX
Received 8 Jun 2011The Diesel Cente Carrington Drove North Crowland PE6 0BZ
Received 10 Dec 2012Herdgate Yard Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 12 Jun 20031 THE BRAMBLES HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JU
Received 16 Feb 20214 MIDSUMMER GARDENS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9GF
Received 14 Mar 2018Holland Bridge Lodge Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0SS
Received 30 Jun 2017Records 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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