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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
37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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McBrides Nurseries Frostley Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8SR
Received 20 Dec 2004Plot 1 Off Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Sept 1998BROADLANDS 42 TOWN DAM LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TP
Received 22 Feb 2021Kirkgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 199873 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BX
Received 27 Jul 2011BUNGALOW 141 ST JAMES ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BA
Received 20 Aug 2020Adjacent 3 Lincolns Avenue Gedney Hill
Received 3 May 200657 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1994The Granary Vine Street Spalding
Received 26 Jan 2006Land next to Welland Workspace 10 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QD
Received 10 Jul 201943 POSTLAND ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JB
Received 24 May 201617 Medway Close Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HS
Received 13 Nov 1991Welbourn Lane East Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AB
Received 28 Mar 200213A The Crescent Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 16 Jul 1998Land at Castlefields Spalding
Received 8 Dec 20034A Gimmels Gate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AS
Received 19 Oct 2020Bullocks Shortgate Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 1995String of Horses Public House 3 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LR
Received 19 May 1995Adj. 291 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LR
Received 19 Apr 2022Crowland Water Tower The Common Crowland Peterborough
Received 22 Aug 200041 & 43 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7JA
Received 28 Aug 2026Adj 124 Siltside Five Bells Public House Gosberton Risegate
Received 12 Aug 2003Part of Former Airfield Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 23 Mar 2004Adjacent Peregrines Rest Hallgate Gedney
Received 5 Apr 2007Records 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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