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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
37,031 approved · 4,521 refused · 1,355 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
JOHN WRIGHT ENGINEERING FENLAND MANOR JEKILS BANK HOLBEACH ST JOHNS PE12 8RQ
Received 26 Aug 201517 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1994114 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4ET
Received 5 Jul 2016Fenlands Cottage Clarks Hill Gedney
Received 19 Apr 2007Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1995Springfield Festival Gardens and Retail Outlets Camel Gate Spalding
Received 25 Feb 2004Main Road Surfleet Spalding
Received 1 Apr 2014Yew Lodge Farm Gull Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SS
Received 30 Nov 2009Barclays Bank Plc Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JD
Received 6 Sept 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Boston Road South Holbeach
Received 19 May 2008Rear of 2 Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9UF
Received 11 Apr 202420 BRAYFIELDS PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YT
Received 10 Oct 2018Hawthorn Barn Black Hole Drove West Pinchbeck PE11 3QL
Received 16 Nov 2007THE GRANGE COXS DROVE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0ND
Received 6 Oct 202014 Ludlow Gardens Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 2000Church Walk Holbeach Lincs
Received 15 May 2000Jersey Cottage Roman Bank Moulton Seas End
Received 22 Nov 2002Lutton Gate Farmhouse, 106 Lutton Gate Road Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 22 May 199737 HALL GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7JA
Received 13 May 201487 and 89 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NA
Received 25 Oct 2004The Black Bungalow Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NR
Received 26 Oct 2009land at Sutton Bridge
Received 20 Jun 2000SWINTON INSURANCE 32 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1DL
Received 5 Apr 2019The Sidings (Plot 10) Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Aug 1995Records 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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