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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Acre Farm 40 Guanockgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LU
Received 14 Feb 202526 PERCHERON DRIVE SPALDING PE11 3GH
Received 15 Apr 2014Model Farm Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3ND
Received 16 Sept 2005Patchett Lodge Arthurs Avenue Holbeach PE11 7LH
Received 1 Feb 2002LIFT AND SHIFT BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HD
Received 17 Jul 2023Adj. 14 Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Sept 1998Home Farm Shaw's Lane Little Sutton Spalding PE12 9AN
Received 7 Apr 2015Bridge Farm Nurseries Horseshoe Road Spalding
Received 24 Dec 200768 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ED
Received 8 Dec 199968 Wygate Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 19955 Kemp Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HE
Received 12 Dec 2003'Westlyn', Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Feb 199825 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End Spalding PE11 4DJ
Received 13 Dec 202150 Ash Court Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XJ
Received 28 Feb 2003248 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JR
Received 16 Jul 2004Glen Esk St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks
Received 4 Nov 200838 Saxon Close Spalding PE12 6AX
Received 1 Aug 2013CRESPIA LOWGATE ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LN
Received 2 Mar 2015Site north of A17 Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 1993Red Roofs Dowsdale Bank Crowland PE6 0NF
Received 19 Jun 201313 CHURCH STREET DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UA
Received 5 Feb 2024Virginia House 87 Mole Drove Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PA
Received 21 Dec 2011Kingsgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0AG
Received 20 Dec 1991SERPENTINE HOUSE 30 BARRINGTON GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LB
Received 29 Apr 2026Records 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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