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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Poultry Site Guanockgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LU
Received 7 May 2014Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AE
Received 19 Feb 2015Field Cottage High Road Whaplode PE12 6TJ
Received 6 Sept 2002NATIONWIDE BLDG SOC 4 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SA
Received 29 Oct 2019Doctors Surgery Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Feb 1994Sutton View Church Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech
Received 9 Jun 1992Ashlea Beck Bank Gosberton Clough PE11 4LE
Received 29 May 2008Off Church Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9NU
Received 29 Jun 2017Rear of 5 High Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DU
Received 7 Mar 2022145 Fields Farm Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SN
Received 7 Dec 2010White Lodge 10 Halmergate Spalding
Received 11 Sept 2006Rig House Seas End Road Moulton Seas End
Received 10 Jan 200223 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EE
Received 5 Feb 2001Adjacent Manor Farm Broadgate Sutton St James
Received 3 Apr 2006Passageway from Ashby Gardens West Cobgate Moulton PE12 6QR
Received 7 Jun 2007Poplar Farm Old Fen Dike Road Sutton St James
Received 28 May 200429 WEST STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BN
Received 28 Mar 2022CHERRY TREE FARM MAIN ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PD
Received 19 May 2016AVONDALE DAM GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8PB
Received 17 Jan 2022Off West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PN
Received 1 Jul 2013Land within/adjacent:Lincs Gateway Business Park, and south: Fen End Lane Spalding PE12 6FY
Received 24 Dec 2018Nene Court Spalding Lincs PE11 2JT
Received 15 Jun 20118 NORTHONS LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PZ
Received 23 May 2014Lowgate Nr Jnc Puddingpoke Lane Lutton
Received 2 Aug 2004Records 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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