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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37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hawthorne House Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8JQ
Received 24 Mar 2004'Rose Villa Farm' Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0AZ
Received 5 Mar 2009Tilsons Yard Black Barn Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PA
Received 8 Apr 202148 Holbeach Road Spalding PE11 2HQ
Received 22 Oct 2024Fleet Estate Office Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8LR
Received 21 Oct 1996Deeping St Nicholas C P School Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 1994116 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Oct 2002The Paddock Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 28 Feb 2003Moortoft Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 1993Chapel Farm Woodgate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XF
Received 11 Jul 2012Rushfield Jarvis Gate Sutton S James Spalding PE12 0EU
Received 1 Dec 2010Cowley Road Donington
Received 22 Jul 2005'Sandiacres' 29 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BB
Received 30 Jun 2009PAVILION SNOWDEN FIELD THORNEY ROAD CROWLAND PE6 0AL
Received 24 May 202348 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 May 2005Adjacent 9 Burgess Drive Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8NR
Received 4 Apr 2013Four Acres 36 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9HG
Received 26 Mar 2025Station Street Donington
Received 29 Sept 2008Princes Street/Branches Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 199711 New Road (ground floor) Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 1997THE WALNUTS 29 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 13 Jun 2022Adj. Collingwood House 2 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1996The Old Vicarage St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding PE12 8DZ
Received 18 Jan 2013Integrity Foods Holbeach Road Spalding PE12 6JR
Received 12 Aug 2025Records 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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