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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 1998Land to the west of Cowbridge Road Bicker Fen South Holland and Boston
Received 8 Oct 202665 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1JR
Received 8 Dec 2011115 Queens Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2JH
Received 29 Aug 2012Walnut Tree Field Coalbeach Lane South Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DE
Received 7 Jan 2019Rear of "Red Hills" Swindlers Drove Low Fulney Spalding
Received 12 Jan 19952 Tavistock Road Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1997Off North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 199684 Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XY
Received 15 Apr 2004Sneaths Mill Lutton Gowts Lutton
Received 4 Mar 2011Chestnut Acre Sholtsgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TZ
Received 10 Dec 2010Jena Oxcroft Bank Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XT
Received 9 Feb 1993Pepper Hill Farm North Drove Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Aug 1996Plot between 4 and 8 Roman Bank Long Sutton
Received 30 Mar 2004'Sheridan` Churchway Tydd St Mary Lincs
Received 11 May 1992Telephone Exchange Winsover Road Spalding
Received 5 Jul 2006Land off Taylors Drove Sutton St James SPALDING PE12 0JZ
Received 13 Dec 2016Five Acres Broad Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs PE11 4JS
Received 21 Jun 20047 BARBERS DROVE SOUTH CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EY
Received 19 Sept 201815A High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TW
Received 21 May 1993Former E J Lefley Site Station Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LF
Received 31 Mar 2015Wignals Gate Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 21 Jan 2003Off Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Oct 20004 Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AS
Received 20 Aug 2019Records 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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