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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Rectory, 46 East Street Crowland Lincs PE6 0EN
Received 14 Nov 1997ROBINS NEST 22 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JS
Received 8 Apr 2019Clay Lake Farmhouse Burr Lane Spalding
Received 1 Dec 200317 Swindlers Drove Low Fulney Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jun 20122 St Johns Road Spalding PE11 1JA
Received 30 Jul 20182 The Delph Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3LR
Received 21 Aug 2013Borden House Farm Thorney Road, Nene Terrace Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LF
Received 10 Mar 199837 Park Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AW
Received 11 Nov 1991The Hacienda North Road Gedney Hill
Received 16 Jun 2003Double Street (Former Loughborough Motors Site) Spalding
Received 27 Feb 1997Plot 32 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 9 Dec 1991The Horse and Groom 65 High Street Holbeach
Received 23 Nov 20069 Meadowgate Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 2001Eastbank Farm House Garners Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 6YP
Received 5 Oct 2004New House Nursery Hospital Drove Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EN
Received 4 May 202513 Broome Way Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 1999Poplar Farm Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 16 Aug 2024Land Adjacent to 196 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4PT
Received 16 Sept 2025The Willows Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding, Lincs
Received 8 May 2000Adjacent 26 West Drove North Gedney Hill
Received 23 Jul 200741 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding
Received 25 Nov 2010Adj Lyndale Cottage Cowbit
Received 23 Sept 2002138 NEW ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QE
Received 21 Feb 2022Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Apr 2000Records 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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