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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Adj Vine Street Car Park Vine Street Spalding
Received 8 Feb 200217 St Johns Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 May 2004Lockwoods Factory Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 20 Jan 1992Gosberton Church Yard Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 10 Jan 2013Park Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 1994Plot 45 Off Town Drove Quadring
Received 5 Jun 2002Albert Walk Holbeach Spalding PE12 7DP
Received 6 Nov 1991BERENICE NUTTS LANE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RP
Received 16 Feb 2021Land East Of Church Street and South of Bicker Road Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 14 May 202138 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 29 Jun 2001Elsam Cross and Co 5 London Road Spalding PE11 2TA
Received 10 Apr 2015The Hamber 5 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AF
Received 2 Dec 19912 Wharf Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Mar 2000Land adjacent 84 Barrier Bank Cowbit PE12 6AQ
Received 2 Oct 2006Elm Tree Farm Mill Drove Weston Hills
Received 19 Dec 2006GLEBE FARM PARSONAGE LANE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE12 0JA
Received 28 Oct 2020Holbeach Fire Station Station Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 21 Mar 200159 Chestnut Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Nov 1997KENORA DANIELS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DN
Received 2 Dec 2015GARNSGATE HALL LUTTON GARNSGATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JP
Received 15 Jul 201541 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 200051 SEAS END ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DQ
Received 16 Dec 2021Avenue Farmhouse Woad Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QF
Received 31 Dec 19915 Malvern Close Spalding Lincs PE11 2DQ
Received 19 Feb 2004Records 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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