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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37,169 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Bridge Hotel 4 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 5 Mar 20255 HOLWOOD DRIVE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 5AD
Received 17 Nov 2025Land North: 30 Roman Bank Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LA
Received 17 May 201831-33 High Street Gosberton
Received 17 Jan 2005Moray Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6UE
Received 18 Jan 2010Cornfields Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3BE
Received 18 Mar 2013Land to rear of Shetland Cottage (North Plot) Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PY
Received 19 Aug 2024Land off Harlequin Drive Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 20 Oct 2004Holly House Fen Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XE
Received 15 Sept 201010 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 1994Unit 4 2B Fleet Road Industrial Estate Holbeach
Received 27 Jul 2007139 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Mar 199820 HARWOOD AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HY
Received 24 May 2019CHRIST CHURCH CHURCH STREET GEDNEY DAWSMERE SPALDING
Received 9 Aug 2019S M C Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4HG
Received 27 May 2022West of The Farm House Kingsgate Gedney Spalding
Received 12 Aug 1997Chestnut Farm Seas End Road Moulton
Received 30 Aug 2006112 Winsover Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1HA
Received 3 Dec 1998Stonegate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 13 Feb 20016 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 12 May 2010Chopdyke Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 4 Oct 19957-9 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1QD
Received 25 Nov 2025Fowler Welch Coolchain West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 14 Dec 2007Hampton Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2RW
Received 21 Dec 2009Records 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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