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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Cottage 77 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SD
Received 26 Nov 2004Land off Topsgate Gedney Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0BU
Received 27 Dec 2023Land to South of 103 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4SJ
Received 4 Mar 2025Cressy Hall Farm Cawood Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jan 1996Unit 4A 34 Fleet Road Industrial Estate Holbeach
Received 16 May 2003Mill House Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 22 Feb 200089 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire. PE12 0EF
Received 11 Jan 2000Adjacent Berberis House Old Fendike Sutton St James
Received 26 Feb 2007Plots 24 & 26, Phase 3 Off Backgate Cowbit Spalding, Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 18 Sept 2000Holbeach Baptist Church Albert Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 22 Apr 201351 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 19998 Cobgate Close Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6SX
Received 7 Nov 2007Fendyke House New Fen Dyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0LQ
Received 29 Nov 2024Broadgate Weston Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 1997Land to the North West of High Road Weston Spalding
Received 15 Dec 2020Bird's Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Aug 2015Land off Banbury Close Spalding PE11 2BS
Received 28 Oct 2004190 High Road Whaplode
Received 29 Feb 200839 ALBERT STREET SPALDING PE11 2LD
Received 9 Apr 20241 Benner Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Jul 1996Sedge Homes Ltd 43 Double Street Spalding
Received 11 Nov 200835 QUADRING ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TD
Received 5 Mar 2015Willesby House Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 21 Jan 199479 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EE
Received 2 Nov 2009Records 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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