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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
37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Poplar Farm Old Fen Dyke Sutton St James Spalding
Received 9 Jan 2001Ravens Gate & Jekils Bank Holbeach St. Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 19918 Benner Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TZ
Received 19 Sept 2024Applegarth 14 Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EN
Received 20 Aug 2008183 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 3PA
Received 5 Oct 2007Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 19959 Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 1996Sandpit Nurseries Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 199571 MILLFIELD GARDENS CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0HA
Received 29 Mar 2021Spalding Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Sept 1999121 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Mar 19986 Oak Tree Close Cambridge Gardens Gosberton Spalding, Lincs. PE11 4LT
Received 3 Jul 2003Rear of 368 and 370 Bourne Road, Spalding, Lincs
Received 2 Jul 199259 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 26 Jul 200724 Church Street Holbeach
Received 26 Jun 2007The Red Lion Public House Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jun 1995Adjacent Alexine off Malting Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 23 Sept 2009Orchard Farm Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow
Received 7 Feb 2006Crossgate Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 1994BRIDGE HOUSE FARM GOSBERTON BANK GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PB
Received 23 Apr 2020Land east of Crease Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BN
Received 25 Jul 2016Haycroft Lane Fleet
Received 26 Aug 200327 and 29 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jun 201264 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jan 2004Records 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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