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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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64 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8QA
Received 8 Jun 2010FLINTFIELD STATION ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JB
Received 14 Jul 2021Rear of the Old Vicarage 2 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 20 Nov 1997Sunrise Ravens Bank Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 8PT
Received 12 May 200550 Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 200524 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EP
Received 15 Aug 200692 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2EL
Received 31 Oct 20174 Pennyfields Roman Bank Holbeach Clough
Received 7 Sept 2007Land between Wignals Gate Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 16 Nov 2005Land at Cowpers Gate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 1999The Abattoir Bull Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HA
Received 2 Aug 2019Baytree Nurseries and Garden Centre High Road Weston
Received 12 Feb 2004TROJAN WOODWORKING BOURNE ROAD PODE HOLE SPALDING PE11 3LW
Received 31 Jul 202680 Wygate Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1NT
Received 24 Mar 2010Failte Glenside North Pinchbeck PE11 3SD
Received 11 Feb 2003Land adjacent Ashtree Farm Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns
Received 26 Sept 200868 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 199612 AVIGNON ROAD SPALDING PE11 1HW
Received 21 Jun 2021Fenland Manor Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8RQ
Received 10 Nov 201767 and 69 High Street Holbeach
Received 20 Jan 200437 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PW
Received 3 Sept 2019Land off Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9HG
Received 18 Jun 2024DERWENT HOUSE 122 BOSTON ROAD NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AD
Received 29 May 2024Chequers 97 High Road Weston Spalding PE12 6RA
Received 11 Mar 2021Records 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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