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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
37,395 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
RAVENDALE 19 FLEET ROAD FLEET SPALDING PE12 8LA
Received 12 Feb 2015Irby Villa Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RT
Received 10 Mar 2025Bandos Nursery Ryefield Lane Holbeach Fen
Received 22 Nov 2006Swindlers Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Mar 1994Land adj. 9 Hardwick Close Crowland PE6 0FP
Received 5 Dec 2023Annasfield Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JH
Received 11 Jun 201330 Park Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1PP
Received 22 Jun 200448a WOODGATE ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XF
Received 18 Apr 2018Spalding Winsover ATE Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 1995The Orchards 22 Colbeach Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DE
Received 13 May 200432 Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 1998Moulton Chapel Primary School Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel
Received 11 Jul 200543 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 13 Feb 2001Off New Road (Plots 1 & 2) Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Sept 1999Broadgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0DE
Received 13 Jan 1994off Chapelgate Bells Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jan 2008Land north of Withington Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SU
Received 16 Jul 2019The Prior's Oven 1 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 199559 South Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AH
Received 12 Aug 2010Willow Tree Farm Holbeach St Marks
Received 24 Aug 2005A Culpin & Sons Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 5 Nov 20015 Benner Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TZ
Received 19 Feb 201327 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 9 Dec 20091 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding
Received 11 Oct 2012Records 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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