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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Plank Hook Allotments Lane Holbeach Bank
Received 10 Dec 2002Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding Lincs. PE12 9EF
Received 10 Jul 20005 The Wentworths Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 2010Hagbeach Manor Millgate Whaplode
Received 16 Mar 2007Adj. The Chestnuts Church End Fleet Spalding PE12 8NQ
Received 19 Aug 2021Adj. to Bowfield Eaugate Road Moulton Eaugate Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Sept 2000Rear of 73 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs
Received 8 Apr 199911 Custom House Street Sutton Bridge
Received 10 Mar 2008Turners Stores Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding, Lincs
Received 13 May 1993Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 1995Land at Corner of Holbeach Road Roundabout Spalding PE12 6ED
Received 14 Sept 202641 Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RG
Received 10 Dec 2001Elsoms Seeds Ltd. Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QG
Received 22 Jan 2019Land off Roman Bank/Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Received 2 Aug 1996'Karwayne', Malten Lane Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Mar 19965 Shearers Drive Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3ZJ
Received 22 Jun 2006523 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DB
Received 6 Dec 2004R Bratley Ltd Quadring Eaudyke Spalding
Received 6 Nov 2002Cherry Tree Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jul 199641-43 High Street Gosberton
Received 11 Sept 2001Glenfield House Ropers Gate Gedney
Received 13 Jun 200877a High Street Gosberton
Received 18 Jun 2002Garages Adjacent to 39 Hall Hill Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7JB
Received 12 Oct 2026Land off Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4HG
Received 8 Nov 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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