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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn
Received 28 Nov 2008Land between 12 Flaxmill House & Old Lammas Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding
Received 1 Aug 2023Farm Cottage Birds Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Apr 1992Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Mar 1996Land off Malting Lane (Phase 2) Donington Spalding
Received 21 Jun 202413 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 Sept 2002G H Hoyles Ltd Monmouth House Monmouth Lane Lutton
Received 15 Jan 2007EYE FARM 168 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND PE12 0LT
Received 9 May 20185 BRIDGE ROAD LITTLE SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EG
Received 26 Jun 2019Fleet House Fleet Hargate Spalding
Received 21 Jan 1993Turners Turkeys Farm Broad Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding, Lincs
Received 8 Nov 19932 Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding
Received 27 Feb 2001Adjacent 35 Mill Drove South Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6FS
Received 28 May 201312 Halmer Paddock Spalding Lincs PE11 2HF
Received 20 Jun 2007Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jun 1991THE OLD VICARAGE ST MARKS ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8DZ
Received 16 May 20168 HIGH ROAD MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PE
Received 19 Apr 2021Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UB
Received 30 Jul 201011 PARK AVENUE SPALDING PE11 1QU
Received 30 Jun 2022Granite House Chapel Gate Gedney Spalding
Received 8 Mar 1999BOXERS RETREAT SUTTON ROAD SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HU
Received 2 Sept 2020Paddock House Bear Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3XA
Received 26 Mar 2001248 Pennygate Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Feb 1995Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PB
Received 25 Mar 2020Records 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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