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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Barrington Mills Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LE
Received 19 Feb 1996GEORGE THOMPSON (FARMS) LTD THE GROVE HURN BANK HOLBEACH HURN PE12 8JJ
Received 30 Mar 2023Bungalow Millgate Whaplode St Catherine
Received 1 Dec 2003White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1998The Old Rectory 13 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DA
Received 12 May 2014Land off Draw Dyke Sutton St James Spalding
Received 7 Jul 20218 CLEY HALL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DZ
Received 17 Dec 202475 BRIDGE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EF
Received 3 May 201872 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JW
Received 21 Dec 2004APPLE TREE FARM CAWOOD HALL CAWOOD LANE GOSBERTON PE11 4HB
Received 26 Sept 2022War Memorial Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RN
Received 26 Oct 2022Gedney Water Tower Site Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BW
Received 27 Nov 1991Ravensgate Nursery Ravensgate Holbeach St Johns
Received 11 Jun 2008Shop And Premises 42A Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3RB
Received 16 Jul 2026Cowards Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SP
Received 28 Oct 201448 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1998BANK HOUSE FARM 10 COOKS ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4PE
Received 18 Mar 2015Barrier Bank Peak Hill Cowbit
Received 1 Dec 2023Common Farm Hospital Drove Little Sutton Spalding PE12 9EL
Received 31 Aug 2011Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding
Received 17 Sept 199245 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 1995Waittes Farm Barns Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Nov 2016Corner Farm, Banks Drove The Cuckoo Pode Hole Spalding PE11 3BJ
Received 3 Mar 1997Unit 1 Shoebridge Engineering Kellet Gate Spalding Lincs PE12 6EH
Received 20 Nov 2017Records 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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