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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 18 Mar 2005Land at Walpole Substation Walpole Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 2010Land adjacent Holland Lodge Little Dog Drove Holbeach St John
Received 31 Aug 2006The Woodlands Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3ST
Received 7 Sept 2009The Black Bull Public House Market Place Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ST
Received 21 Aug 2006Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JA
Received 4 Feb 2022Plot at The Raceground Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Aug 1995Honeysuckle Lodge Fengate Moulton Chapel
Received 23 Nov 200551 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Apr 2002Ravens Gate Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RD
Received 12 Nov 2025Springfields Outlet Centre 49 Camelgate Spalding PE12 6EU
Received 29 Jan 2018The Cottage Beach Bank Farm Beach Bank Surfleet PE11 4AX
Received 8 Mar 2012Turkey Farm Chapel Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 199274 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DH
Received 29 May 199794 Church Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6NS
Received 2 Nov 20091 Forge Cottage Glenside South West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NH
Received 16 Mar 2022Land off Main Street Gedney Dyke
Received 24 Mar 2005The Chapel Emporium London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EA
Received 23 Feb 201176 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Jul 200537 Lowgate Gosberton Spalding
Received 31 Jul 2013Adjacent to Douglas (Plot 3) Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3JA
Received 26 Apr 202418 WYGATE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1NT
Received 16 Sept 2014145 Pennygate Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1NW
Received 6 Nov 2013Rear Garden: Dial House London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 14 Jan 2019Records 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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