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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
31,314 approved · 3,854 refused · 1,135 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bardling Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jan 2000Off Roman Bank Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 1999Market Place Donington Spalding PE11 4ST
Received 6 Jan 2023Currency Cottage Moneybridge Lane Pinchbeck
Received 5 Feb 20078 School Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9HW
Received 6 Sept 2019Eastlands Crowland Spalding PE6 0JF
Received 12 Feb 2015Highbury Damgate Holbeach
Received 11 Sept 200630 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JN
Received 5 Feb 202412 Saxon Close Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 19992 Harrington Way Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AU
Received 28 May 2008Land East of Crease Drove Crowland
Received 13 Jul 2021BAKKAVOR SLUICE ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8HF
Received 30 Nov 2020The Cottage Mill Bank Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QW
Received 7 May 2010Kingsgate Mews Land off Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 7 Dec 2022The Mansion House 45 High Street Holbeach
Received 6 Apr 2006Land off Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Dec 2000Milldale Churchway Tydd St Mary
Received 18 May 2000Glenrootes Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AR
Received 26 Oct 2012THE LAMB AND FLAG 226 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TJ
Received 13 Mar 2017Serpentine House Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LB
Received 26 Mar 2012Pt OS No. 7645, Jekil's Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jul 199770 WEST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 22 Apr 2016The Sycamores Farmyard Church Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TA
Received 23 Nov 202056 STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BP
Received 10 Jun 2014Records 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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