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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
30,473 approved · 3,804 refused · 1,101 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Arch House, Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 17 Jul 2000THE PUNCHBOWL 37 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DN
Received 20 Oct 2014Land at Hoddins Way Long Sutton Spalding
Received 20 May 2011Adjacent: 106 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TW
Received 13 Nov 201927 Seas End Road Surfleet
Received 11 Nov 2002Silverwood Nursery Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AU
Received 18 Aug 201015-16 Market Place Donington Spalding PE11 4ST
Received 26 Jun 2019BATTLEFORD HALL BENS GATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NL
Received 17 Aug 2026Birch Grove Streetworks Birch Grove Spalding PE11 2HL
Received 20 Feb 2023The Anglia Business Centre Mill Green Road Pinchbeck
Received 10 Jan 2008Red House Jarvis Gate Sutton St. James Lincs
Received 28 Jul 2000Ivy House Farm Sutton Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HU
Received 3 Oct 2024QUEENSGATE HOTEL WESTLODE STREET SPALDING PE11 2AF
Received 9 Mar 2015Lambley Mill Cottage Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 16 Dec 200216 Surfleet Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4AG
Received 7 Dec 2009Land between 2 and 14 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 15 Feb 2013Land at Centenary Way Sutton Bridge
Received 21 Jun 2000Nene Lodge East Bank Wingland Sutton Bridge
Received 14 Jun 2005Plot 8 Stonegate Gedney
Received 13 Oct 2003Sandy Gate Farmhouse Sandy Gate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HG
Received 31 Jan 2013Plot 4 Churchway Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1998Beehive Cottage Tongue End
Received 2 Jul 2002Paradise Farm Mill Drove North Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AS
Received 7 Nov 201439 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BX
Received 16 Jun 2004Records 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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