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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 May 2005Poplar Farm Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 3 Apr 2018Cemetary Park Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 23 Nov 2012The Chapel Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3HJ
Received 5 Nov 2018BAKKAVOR PIZZA SLUICE ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8HF
Received 12 Dec 201420 West End Holbeach
Received 28 Feb 2006Adj Four Trees 70 Station Road Long Sutton
Received 30 Jul 2003THE LIMES 56 STATION ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NP
Received 10 May 2023Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 May 1992Gedney Hill Golf Club West Drove North Gedney Hill
Received 17 Mar 2009The Beeches Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jul 1993CHURCH END HOUSE CHURCH GREEN LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SQ
Received 18 Oct 2021Corner of Moortoft Lane Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 17 Nov 200517 Barbers Drove North Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 15 Feb 2024LINFIELDS ROMAN BANK SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8BB
Received 5 Dec 202540 CHESTNUT AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NE
Received 3 Feb 2014Off Stockmans Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 10 Feb 2000Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 25 Apr 2005Eastfields 41 Fleet Road Fleet Holbeach, Spalding, Lincolnshire PE12 8LA
Received 17 Jul 2017No 4 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jul 2000Land East of Forest Way Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 1 Oct 2026Rear of 32 Fishpond Lane Holbeach
Received 14 Nov 200244 Postland Road Crowland Spalding PE6 0JB
Received 1 Oct 2020Marlow House Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NE
Received 24 Sept 2010Records 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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