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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
37,310 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 19 May 2010Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1997Memorial Park Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UA
Received 2 Sept 2009Former Dunns Seeds Factory Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 11 Jan 2002Sutton Bridge Golf Course West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9TU
Received 24 Dec 2021Adjacent 60 Northons Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jun 2009Foxaceae King John Bank Walpole Marsh Wisbech Cambs PE14 7JP
Received 13 Dec 2010Pode Hole Depot Pode Hole Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 May 200025 The Reservoir Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DH
Received 1 Oct 2026Applecrumble Castle Quadring Road Gosberton
Received 11 Nov 200286 Moulton Chapel Road Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 1997Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding, Lincs
Received 14 Apr 199917 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 1995Gosberton Food Park Quadring Road Gosberton Spalding, Lincs
Received 8 Aug 2000Former Dunns Seeds Factory Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 24 Jun 1998MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 19 Nov 2021Land adj. to 24 Plank Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BY
Received 29 Jan 1999GREYSTONES COMMON DROVE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0HL
Received 29 Sept 202314 Glen Gardens Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Oct 2003St Mary's Closed Churchyard Market Place Long Sutton Spalding
Received 28 Jan 2015The Annex Farm House Cottage Cuckoo Lane Pinchbeck
Received 2 Jan 2007Washway Road Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Aug 1994Land north of Sutton Bridge, East of the mouth of the River Nene Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 201620 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 18 Dec 2003Records 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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