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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
29,500 approved · 3,716 refused · 1,064 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former St Johns Ambulance Hut Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 6 Sept 2004Ashten Lodge Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns
Received 26 May 2004Homefield Nursery Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0ER
Received 25 Aug 200422 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 8 Jan 2021Commercial Road Car Sales Commercial Road Spalding
Received 28 Jun 200460 St Johns Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JD
Received 3 Dec 200932 Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NN
Received 4 Apr 2024BEDFORD HOUSE 10 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 21 Sept 2022GLENROOTES STOCKHOUSE LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AR
Received 7 Apr 2020Poplar Farm Old Fen Dyke Sutton St James Spalding
Received 16 Jul 2001MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS LTD HOLBEACH ROAD SPALDING PE12 6JP
Received 18 Feb 2020Ostlers Cottage Church End Quadring Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2010Plot 2 Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 11 Feb 2002Post Office Hillgate Gedney Hill
Received 21 Oct 2008305 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LR
Received 25 Jul 2014Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Haverfield Road Spalding
Received 16 Apr 200812 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 11 Mar 2015Schnauzerhaus Parsonage Lane Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JA
Received 23 Jan 201943 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SA
Received 26 Mar 2020Institute Hall Church Lane Crowland PE6 0ER
Received 29 Sept 20068 Ash Close Spalding Lincs PE12 6FE
Received 11 Mar 20086 Callows Site Washway Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8BP
Received 16 Apr 2010Fenhouse Farm Bungalow Broadgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0DG
Received 29 Oct 2007Orchard Cottage Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BE
Received 3 Sept 2021Records 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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