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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site Between 71 and 73 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 31 Oct 2003Adjacent Millgate House Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding PE12 6SE
Received 19 Mar 2015Terry Rudd Motorcycles Barrington 43 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QD
Received 6 Mar 201845 Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire. PE11 3PE
Received 22 May 1997Glenfarg Stables Hallgate Gedney Spalding
Received 23 Nov 19932 Barbers Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 4 Jun 1996Willow Tree Nursery Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4JE
Received 2 Sept 2016Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 31 Jan 2002Land rear Curlew Centre The Memorial Park Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SA
Received 15 Nov 2012The Former Reading Rooms Roman Bank Holbeach Holbeach Bank PE12 8DS
Received 28 Jul 201412 CHESTNUT AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XH
Received 6 May 2021Former Sessions House Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BE
Received 6 Oct 2016Christie Lodge Hallgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Jan 1994Cotton Traders Unit 24, Springfields Camelgate Spalding
Received 23 Apr 2004Land adjacent to Homelea Dozens Bank Pode Hole Spalding
Received 25 Feb 2014Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 199716 Pennygate Spalding
Received 23 Jul 2004The Parish of Sutton St Edmund
Received 21 Aug 1996THE FORME HOLBEACH DROVE GATE HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0PX
Received 25 Feb 2025212 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DQ
Received 23 Jun 2003Parish of Crowland Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 199444 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 10 Oct 2018Rear of 25 Broadway Crowland Lincs PE6 0BJ
Received 27 Apr 200129 Custom House Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UJ
Received 28 Jun 2012Records 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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