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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bank Farm Holbeach Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 19947 Orchard Street Spalding
Received 22 Dec 20082 Park Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DH
Received 1 May 2009West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Oct 1996White Acres Old Main Road Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Nov 1993Building plots at Poplar Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 1996Wignals Gate (Plots 21-39 and 79-83) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 1995BEECHTHORNE 87 SEAGATE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AD
Received 25 Apr 2024St Johns Ambulance HQ Rear : 7 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 1 Jul 2008Rear of 139 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1998The Ohm, Browns Gate Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 2000FRESHLINC DISTRIBUTION BERVOR CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3FZ
Received 12 Jun 2017Bridge Hotel 4 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 25 Feb 2026West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 2005Adjacent 26 Spring Gardens Spalding
Received 19 Dec 2005Site adjacent 2 Croyland Way Crowland PE6 0NA
Received 13 May 2004The Lanterns Stonegate Spalding PE11 2PQ
Received 25 Oct 2016Pickwell House Hogs Gate Moulton
Received 12 May 20081 Lutton Bank Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LJ
Received 2 Aug 2005ROBSONS OF SPALDING FLEMING ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YR
Received 25 Oct 201692 St Thomas's Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2YW
Received 13 Sept 1999Kirkgate Whaplode
Received 25 Sept 20062 MAYFAIR DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2UG
Received 2 Jun 201482 Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 23 May 2005Records 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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