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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
CROWN HALL FARM DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ND
Received 30 Dec 2019'Hardys Nursery', Park Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1994Chapel Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1995Ryecroft Ryefield Lane Holbeach Fen Holbeach, Lincs. PE12 8PS
Received 26 Jun 2001Plot adjacent Wembley House Lowgate Tydd St Mary PE13 5PF
Received 6 Apr 20104 Mulberry Way Spalding Lincs PE11 2QJ
Received 11 Mar 1997Quo Vadis Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JR
Received 22 Jan 2002Land off Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3AB
Received 14 Sept 2016High Road Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Dec 1998'Horseshoes', Beck Bank Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 19998A NORTH PARADE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AJ
Received 21 Dec 2018Coulton Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jan 1996Martins Barber Shop 82 Holbeach Road Spalding PE11 2HX
Received 25 Jun 2014West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 25 Jan 2016The Punch Bowl Public House 37 New Road Spalding
Received 13 Feb 2003The Golden Tree 51 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1995Seagate Farm Seagate Road Long Sutton
Received 17 Jan 2003Chartwell 83 Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 21 May 2008Nutten Stoven Residential Home for the Elderly 81 Boston Road Holbeach Lincs PE12 8AA
Received 31 Aug 2007183 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 3PA
Received 24 Jan 200129 COALBEACH LANE SOUTH SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DE
Received 30 Jul 2019J E Piccaver and Co Peterspoint Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UX
Received 24 Mar 2011Woodhead Bros. Meat Complex Brunel Road Enterprise Way Pinchbeck PE11 3YR
Received 12 Feb 200915-17 Oakwood Park Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LY
Received 2 Jun 2026Records 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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