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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Jolly Crispin Public House Marriotts Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 199553 High Street Gosberton Spalding
Received 22 Mar 1993Safeway Development Site The Holland Markets Swan Street Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1995Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Dec 1998Rear of Crown Farm 4 Stockwell Gate West Whaplode Spalding PE12 6WG
Received 20 Mar 202461 Station Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9BS
Received 12 Sept 2023Land off New Road Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3DU
Received 16 Jan 2002West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jan 1997West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 2 Jun 200024 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 1 Feb 201315 Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Oct 200412 Sheep Market Spalding Lincs PE11 1BE
Received 2 Aug 2012Pear Tree Farm St James Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BA
Received 2 Apr 2024Guy's Head Lighthouse West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QJ
Received 30 Aug 1995Clay Lake Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Oct 199712 Station Road Moulton
Received 12 Aug 2008Land off London Road Long Sutton
Received 11 May 2006The Old Packing Shed 66 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 24 Mar 20251 CHURCHILL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2RL
Received 20 Sept 2022West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 199151 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DB
Received 12 Aug 2005109 ATHERTON GARDENS PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YJ
Received 13 Aug 2020Grounds of existing Vicarage Parson's Lane Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 13 Aug 1992AYSCOUGHFEE CAFE AYSCOUGHFEE HALL CHURCH GATE SPALDING PE11 2RA
Received 22 Jan 2020Records 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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