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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
248 Siltside North Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JR
Received 24 Feb 2003Paxton Villa Old Vicarage Lane Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LU
Received 15 Aug 1995Lowgate Fleet Spalding
Received 2 Mar 2012'Nutsend', Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3ND
Received 10 Jun 1996Adjacent Bell Bush Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas
Received 24 Mar 2003Junction of A151 Holbeach Road and A16 Spalding Road (OS6278) Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1995LINCOLN ARMS 4 BRIDGE STREET SPALDING PE11 1XA
Received 13 Sept 202132 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0ED
Received 9 Mar 1998Land off High Street/Bowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 19955 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1BS
Received 9 Aug 2005Unit 4 Benner Road Industrial Estate Pinchbeck
Received 20 Jan 2006DUNTON LODGE HALL BANK TYDD ST GILES WISBECH PE13 5NG
Received 27 May 202584 Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LF
Received 13 Feb 202649 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1994Blazegate Nurseries Blazegate Gedney
Received 29 Mar 2005Fen Farm Gedney Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 199313 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 18 Dec 1991Land adj. Holbeach United FC Social Club Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PT
Received 13 May 2025Unit 7A Winsover Centre Winsover Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 31 Aug 20002 Coles Close Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7QT
Received 28 Jun 2012Nealwood Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EZ
Received 25 Jul 201610 Nene Meadows Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1998Ambre House 10 Tulip Fields Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6US
Received 14 Mar 2006Long Sutton Primary School Dick Turpin Way Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EP
Received 5 Jul 2011Records 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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