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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land west River Nene Sutton Bridge
Received 17 Mar 2005Plot 3, Saracens Head Nursery Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1995Jubilee Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 22 Aug 2002The Bungalow Little Lane Whaplode
Received 29 Aug 2006Adjacent 26 Green Lane Spalding
Received 22 Jun 2006Bridge Farm Old Fendike Road Weston Hills Spalding PE12 6DD
Received 24 Jun 202420 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BA
Received 6 Oct 2008The Chapel Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 11 May 200010A Risegate Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 199397 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2QP
Received 7 Jan 2011Estate Office Bridge Farm New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QE
Received 17 Feb 2020Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 12 Aug 2004Plots 21A - 26, Phase 7 Aalsmeer Rise Holland Park Spalding, Lincs
Received 7 Apr 1992Adjacent: 323 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LR
Received 21 Oct 2016Homestead Hallgate Gedney
Received 17 Jul 200816 WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PP
Received 2 Aug 2016HOLE IN THE WALL PUBLIC HOUSE HOLE IN THE WALL PASSAGE SPALDING PE11 1SH
Received 11 Aug 201622 EDWARD ROAD SPALDING PE11 1NP
Received 16 Oct 2020west side of North Road Gedney Hill
Received 24 Sept 200169 High Street Gosberton
Received 27 Oct 2008Rear of 7 The Crescent Spalding Lincs PE11 1AE
Received 13 Feb 201722 Church Street Holbeach
Received 3 Sept 2001Plot 13 Land off Hallgate Holbeach
Received 22 May 2000Adjacent 17 Woad Lane Long Sutton
Received 12 Jul 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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