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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
'The Gallop', Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3ND
Received 3 Nov 1995Land adjacent Whiteacres Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 1993Virginia House 87 Mole Drove Gedney Hill
Received 12 Aug 2004Gleed Boys School Halmer Gardens Spalding
Received 23 Jul 2008Brewers Fayre & Premier Inn Land off Cowbit Road East of Barrier Bank Spalding PE12 6AE
Received 12 Feb 201515 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DB
Received 25 Apr 2013Grooms Haven, Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 1996Adj. Longfield House Northons Lane Holbeach Spaalding PE12 7PZ
Received 27 Jan 2022Land at Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 12 Mar 200195 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PQ
Received 30 Apr 200823 Swan Street Spalding
Received 29 May 2002George Farmer Technology College Park Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PU
Received 20 May 2009HERON COTTAGE CAMPING AND CARAVANNING FROSTLEY GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8SR
Received 18 Sept 201417 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 May 1997Land off Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 22 Sept 1994Chapel Walk Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XQ
Received 17 Dec 2020HOMELAND EAUGATE ROAD WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SP
Received 1 Aug 201724 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AG
Received 22 May 2013Land adjacent 35b Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 15 Mar 2006Land adjacent 52 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 18 Jun 2004High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Nov 1994Miome Proudfoot Lane Fleet Spalding
Received 26 Feb 1998Unit 8 Chapel Farm Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3DS
Received 19 Nov 2009Tanyard House Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs PE11 4QB
Received 7 Jun 2002Records 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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