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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Nickcroft Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove
Received 3 Feb 200436 Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XL
Received 11 Apr 2022Lowgate Grange Lowgate Fleet Hargate Spalding, Lincs PE12 8LN
Received 25 Aug 2011309 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jun 199229 WOAD LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LD
Received 11 Jul 2014Horseshoe Nursery Horseshoe Road Spalding PE11 3JB
Received 11 Dec 20141 Stukeley Hall Drive Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 2006The Riverside Hotel 123 Station Road Surfleet
Received 31 May 2007FRENFIELDS RANGELL GATE SPALDING PE12 6EW
Received 8 Jan 2015Clementine Cottage 56 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9RQ
Received 21 Sept 2012Woolworths 15 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 26 Jun 2006JUDY CROSS BARN WATER GATE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4PY
Received 28 Oct 202634 Little London Spalding Lincs PE11 2UB
Received 18 Nov 2015Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 199723 High Street Gosberton
Received 2 May 2002The New House Weydike Bank Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QR
Received 13 Oct 2009Fowler Welch Coolchain West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 23 Jun 2010Land off The Chase High Street Holbeach
Received 19 May 2004Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 5 Sept 2005The String of Horses 3 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding, Lincs. PE12 7LR
Received 30 Jan 200355 Langwith Gardens Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Dec 2002Escallonia 3 Holland Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1UL
Received 5 Mar 2010TANGLEWOOD OLD VICARAGE LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LU
Received 20 Jul 2020Sylvidor Lutton Gowts Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Aug 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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