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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Ford Cottage Back Bank Whaplode Drove PE12 0TT
Received 8 Apr 2003587 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DP
Received 26 May 2022101 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2BJ
Received 17 Jun 2008Mapletree House Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JP
Received 9 Feb 20003 Mallard Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6ND
Received 5 Aug 2010Land at rear of Holbeach Manor Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 19 May 2004Compact Car Corner Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AG
Received 10 Jun 2014BRIDGE LODGE SPALDING COMMON SPALDING PE11 3AU
Received 30 Aug 2017Mallard Hurn (Field No 3500) Mallard Drove Donington Spalding
Received 13 Sept 1996Land Cowpers Gate Long Sutton
Received 7 Dec 2004Quadring Road (Geest UK) Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 199964 Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 19921 BROADWAY CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BJ
Received 10 Aug 2020Land off Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Jan 2000"Firman" 31 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding
Received 23 Jun 1992Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Jul 1994Tydd St Mary Primary School Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 17 Jul 2008THE BLACKSMITHS COTTAGE 2 SWAPCOAT LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HD
Received 24 Jul 2014Roman Road Moulton Chapel
Received 2 Feb 2006Long Sutton Cricket & Hockey Club Park Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DJ
Received 12 Feb 2018Daniels Crescent Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Sept 1997Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BL
Received 16 Nov 200964 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 7 Mar 2005Second field to the south of The Stables 88 Baulkins Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JU
Received 27 Feb 2025Records 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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