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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
37,293 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PS
Received 22 Apr 2008Mowcop House Dowsdale Bank Crowland SPALDING PE6 0NF
Received 27 Sept 2016Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 15 May 199711 & 13 TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PU
Received 19 Feb 201962 Boston Road South Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7LZ
Received 3 Apr 2025HILLCREST BROADGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JF
Received 2 Feb 20218 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BA
Received 24 Sept 2025Wykeham House Marsh Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Sept 1998Springfield Festival Gardens Camelgate and Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 15 Dec 2003Beech Lodge Frogs Abbeygate Holbeach St Johns
Received 24 Nov 2006Land off Seagate Road & Lancaster Drive Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Nov 19986 Barbers Drove Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BE
Received 5 Oct 200527/28 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 1997Cheal Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 1992Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Dec 2003Land off Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 30 Aug 2005OS.8321, Counter Drain Drove Tongue End Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jan 1994Heron Flight 21 Parson Drove West Pinchbeck
Received 10 Apr 2008Tidswell Bungalow Burr Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6AZ
Received 20 Apr 202013 APELDOORN GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1JT
Received 11 May 201655 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 30 Nov 2016Thistlewood Farm Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 21 Mar 2019Land at Tysdale Farm Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QH
Received 12 Nov 2019Riseholme Lodge Charters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JX
Received 12 Jun 2006Records 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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