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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 The Wentworths Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Long Sutton
Received 26 Jul 2004Windrush Lodge Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding Lincs PE12 0TU
Received 1 Aug 2005Site off Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 1999THE RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE 6 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 5 Jul 2019ROWAN COURT 291 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 20 Aug 2018WILKERSON FARMHOUSE CRANESGATE NORTH WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SR
Received 5 May 20221 Market Place Long Sutton
Received 12 Jan 2006Plot 9 Chapel Gardens Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jul 1999Malting Lane Donington Spalding
Received 3 Oct 201414 FORGE CRESCENT PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TN
Received 9 Mar 2026Adjacent 47 Wignals Gate Holbeach
Received 18 Jan 2005Holbeach House Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 7 Jun 2007Plot 5 Elsom Way Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 10 Apr 2006Old Crown Cottage 65 North Street Crowland PE6 0EG
Received 28 Nov 2016O.S. 1667 Little Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Nov 1991Sholtsgate Nursery Ltd Sholtsgate Whaplode
Received 14 Aug 2006Land at Harvester Way Harvester Way Crowland
Received 16 Jan 2019Wygate Park Spalding Lincs PE11 1NY
Received 12 Aug 2013Gate Farm Swindlers Drove Spalding Lincs. PE12 6JR
Received 24 Aug 1999Land adj. Havencombe Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding
Received 28 Mar 2023Cuckoo Bridge (alongside North Drove Road) to the old railway line
Received 28 Feb 201220 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Dec 1996SPRINGFIELDS 120 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NS
Received 2 Aug 2019Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 2001Records 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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