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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Lowgate Fleet Bank Fleet Spalding PE12 8LW
Received 16 Apr 2021Abbey Print Works Site High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1994Osborne House Penny Hill Holbeach
Received 10 Dec 2003Park Lane Surfleet
Received 2 Aug 2005Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs. PE12 8LT
Received 29 Jul 2003Poplar Farm Banks Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3BQ
Received 2 Apr 2001244 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs. PE12 9SQ
Received 28 Jul 20032 Pinfold Lane Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JW
Received 21 Mar 2019Gore Lane Spalding
Received 27 Feb 20041A Woodfield Close Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2PU
Received 26 Jul 2004Land adj. 89 Peterspoint (fronting onto Railway Lane) Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Feb 1992Crosskeys Swing Bridge Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UA
Received 9 Oct 20252 OSIER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1UU
Received 2 Oct 2014Land Rear of 43 & 45 Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding
Received 7 Mar 2022St Thomas's Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Feb 1997Delma Quadring Road Gosberton, Spalding Lincs, PE11 4NB
Received 17 Feb 1993Owls Watch Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PJ
Received 24 Aug 201621 Edinburgh Walk Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AP
Received 30 Mar 2001West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Aug 1996Plots 199 - 361 Magellan Way Spalding
Received 26 Jan 2005Long Sutton Butterfly and Wildlife Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LE
Received 29 Sept 2010Top Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 28 May 1997Adjacent Manor Farm Broadgate Sutton St James
Received 24 Jun 2005West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 22 Apr 1999Records 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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