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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37,161 approved · 4,537 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
"Ventura", Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 May 1995Building Plot at Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 199965A Station Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BS
Received 10 Feb 2020Fleet Road/Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 19972 King Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RB
Received 5 Jun 2009Land off Crease Drove Crowland PE6 0BN
Received 14 May 2020Adjacent 10 Union Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Dec 1995184 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Sept 199673 High Street Gosberton
Received 16 Jun 2003Premier Foods Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 19 Jul 2007Land to north of Roman Road between Greystones & Shrove House Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jan 2000THE HAVEN 83 HAWTHORN BANK SPALDING PE11 1JQ
Received 15 Apr 20242 West Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HP
Received 8 Mar 2024Washway Road (A17) Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 4 May 2000The Blacksmiths Cottage 2 Swapcoat Lane Long Sutton
Received 21 May 2007East Lighthouse Sutton Bridge
Received 28 Jan 200266 Fleet Road Fleet
Received 2 May 200673 High Street Gosberton
Received 11 Feb 2002Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 1997THE CROWN HOTEL 5 WEST END HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LW
Received 23 Nov 2021THE SQUARE CHURCH STREET SPALDING PE11 2PA
Received 27 Apr 20203-5 Station Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Nov 199632 REMBRANDT WAY SPALDING PE11 3HX
Received 31 Oct 201818 BROADWAY CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BJ
Received 3 Oct 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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