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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 3 Dec 2003SOUTHFIELDS CLAY LAKE SPALDING PE11 2QG
Received 21 Oct 2020Pt. OS 68, 52 Coalbeach Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 1996Decoy Farm Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 26 Jun 2009Near Sewage Pumping Station Queens Road Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Oct 1994Parish of Gedney Hill
Received 9 Jul 1992Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jan 2001North View Lakes North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE11 0NS
Received 21 Nov 2012Bowling Centre Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 2001Land off New Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3DU
Received 22 Jan 2001Plots 1-34, Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 1994Barrington House Farm Fen Road Holbeach Spalding, Lincs. PE12 8QG
Received 15 Sept 2000Browns Gate Farm Sutton Crosses Long Sutton PE12 9AU
Received 20 Jun 2011Hat and Feathers Public House Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EE
Received 19 Dec 2003THE OAKS 251 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 6 Apr 2016Adjacent Harrow Farm House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas
Received 9 Jan 2007Off Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 1996Roman Lodge Mill Lane Tydd St Mary
Received 8 Feb 2008Unit 1 Venture Court Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3JG
Received 23 May 2013Harrissons Yard Low Road Holbeach Hurn
Received 12 Oct 2007The Mill Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XQ
Received 24 Feb 201177 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UE
Received 3 Nov 2011The Bell Inn 33 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UB
Received 8 Dec 2017Land off Hallgate & Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Apr 2025Records 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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