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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Power Station Site East Nene Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 2 Jun 199711 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Nov 1994Burton House Marsh Road Lutton Marsh
Received 13 Sept 2007Site adj. West Riding Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding
Received 28 Feb 19972A Carrington Road Spalding PE11 1LY
Received 22 Dec 2021Pudding Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Dec 1996Washway House Farm Washway Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 25 Mar 199817/18 Market Place & The White Hart Hotel Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 199627 Cornfields Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 May 200110 Harrox Road Moulton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6PR
Received 10 Jan 200048 Northorpe Road Donington
Received 13 Mar 2002The Chippings Wrights Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9RH
Received 4 Sept 2009Land east of Boston Road South (Formerly Jewson Ltd) Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LX
Received 9 Jun 2025257 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 8 Nov 2021Spalding Road Pinchbeck PE11 3UE
Received 12 Jul 2019Plots 1-46, Holland Park Off Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Oct 1996'Rodeen', 32 Broadgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1995Two Hoots Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 23 Apr 2002Adjacent 70 Station Road Long Sutton
Received 4 Dec 2006HSBC Bank 8 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Dec 2000Fantail House Spalding Common Spalding Lincs PE11 3AU
Received 10 Apr 2018Chaucers Way Spalding
Received 2 Aug 2002Former Primary/Infant Schools Off Bull Lane/Market Street Long Sutton Spalding
Received 22 Aug 1997GREEN PEACE BOARDING KENNELS GREEN PEACE HURDLETREE BANK WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE PE12 6SA
Received 2 May 2023Records 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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