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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 20 Feb 2008Lighthouse East Bank Wingland Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9YT
Received 28 Apr 2011Dalehead Foods Division Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6EP
Received 9 Feb 2012Land at Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Feb 1995Battlefields Lane North Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PF
Received 18 Jul 2016The Manor House East Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EN
Received 22 Dec 2000Spendlas Farm St James Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AZ
Received 24 Feb 2023Common Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6LF
Received 14 Nov 2024LIBRA LODGE EAST GATE FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8ND
Received 28 Jun 2017THE WILLOWS PIT LANE GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PG
Received 22 Jul 20214 Backgate Cowbit PE12 6AP
Received 8 Dec 200644 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 17 Oct 202232/33 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Mar 199527 WARDENTREE LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UF
Received 11 Apr 2026Rose Villa 29 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton
Received 19 May 2004Old Packhouse Cheal Road Surfleet
Received 19 Oct 2006Plot 2, Saracens Head Nursery Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1995Bank House 63 Double Street Spalding PE11 2AB
Received 19 Apr 2012FormerBakery 50 Cross Street Green Lane Spalding
Received 9 Dec 200523 Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 6HP
Received 23 Nov 2011187 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4EN
Received 7 Sept 2011Peak Hill House Peak Hill Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AW
Received 26 Oct 199577 DANIELS CRESCENT LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DR
Received 5 Apr 2022Peterspoint Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Aug 2001Records 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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