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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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Viceroy Drive Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TS
Received 15 Apr 2010HALL MARSH HOUSE 54 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 24 May 2023Cherry Tree Cottage Drawdike Sutton St James
Received 31 Jul 2003Deeping Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3BW
Received 22 Apr 2010'Monks Acre', Proudfoot Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Apr 1996Bakkavor Sluice Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8HF
Received 26 Aug 2016Carter's Farm Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TY
Received 21 Dec 2023Horsefayre Fields (Plots 15, 15a, 16 & 17) Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 10 Oct 1997Adj. The Beeches (Plot 2) Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 19 Nov 2024Land off The Hayfields Wygate Park Spalding PE11 3BP
Received 21 Oct 201126 Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HL
Received 15 Sept 2010Unit 4 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UF
Received 11 Nov 2019Rear of The Mermaid Inn 2 Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AB
Received 4 Jun 2026Crossgate Farm Quadring Road Donington Spalding
Received 19 Jul 1999Adjacent: Redmay Farm 317 Broadgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs PE12 0LR
Received 21 Jul 20176 Heren Place Spalding Lincs PE11 3LB
Received 23 Nov 2001Threeways 3 Luttongate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QJ
Received 17 Jun 2002Site Adjacent to 2 Old Brewery Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9GW
Received 20 Jul 2015Crowland South View CP School Reform Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AN
Received 15 Jul 200933 ST WILLIAM COURT HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7QR
Received 7 Feb 2022Boud Minerals Ltd West Bank Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UR
Received 12 Oct 2026DUNTREATH CACKLE HILL LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8BS
Received 29 Nov 2019Plots 115-198 Magellan Way Spalding
Received 18 Nov 2002North Parade Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Feb 1996Records 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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