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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adjoining Ponderosa Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1998Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Dec 1999Land between Wignals Gate Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 13 Jun 2007Cradge Bank Industrial Estate (Unit 1) Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 30 Apr 19973 St Johns Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JB
Received 30 Jan 2001HAVEN HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LJ
Received 27 Mar 202342 Woad Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9EW
Received 13 Apr 1992Fenland Airfield Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jul 1993THE WILLOWS HAZELWOOD LANE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8PF
Received 14 Dec 2016111 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YA
Received 4 Sept 2018122 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TW
Received 22 Apr 2013Land off Station Road Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Nov 2000MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS LTD VICARAGE LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AF
Received 8 Jan 201487 Woodlands Roman Bank Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jul 1994Hillgate Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NN
Received 2 Oct 1991Adcock Drinks Company Crease Drove Crowland Spalding PE6 0FB
Received 11 Jun 20192A High Street Sutton Bridge SPALDING PE12 9UH
Received 29 Aug 2017Northons Lane (A1 Sheds) Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Nov 1997Boston Road Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 28 Jan 200038 Chapelgate Sutton St James
Received 25 Mar 2003Adjacent 31 High Street Gosberton
Received 21 Jan 2003Enterprise Park Enterprise Way Pinchbeck
Received 11 Jul 2007Land at Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 12 Apr 2000Nutwalk Farm Bythorne Bank Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Mar 2000Records 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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