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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Northgate Farmhouse Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TB
Received 15 May 2024Adj. The Golden Lion Public House Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 28 May 202120 West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7YY
Received 6 Mar 2014Small Holding Seagate Road Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1998Butters Group Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EH
Received 14 Nov 2014Land adj. Havencombe Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EF
Received 12 Jul 202238 Meadowgate Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Apr 2002Bracken Barn Nutts Lane Holbeach St Johns PE12 8RP
Received 18 Jun 201231 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 1992The Cottage White Cross Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Apr 2010Land to east Sutton Bridge and north west of Walpole St Peter
Received 3 Feb 2015Rear of Willow Lodge Roman Bank Saracens Head Spalding
Received 10 Apr 2001Ivy Cottage Spendlas Farm St James Road Long Sutton Lincs PE12 9AZ
Received 9 Nov 2001Mayjon 71 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LT
Received 25 Jan 2011Plot OS 0020 North Road Gedney Hill
Received 13 Feb 2003Anglia Motel Washway Road Fleet
Received 26 Mar 20034 Market Court Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9FW
Received 2 Dec 200930 Pennygate Spalding PE11 1NL
Received 22 Jul 2016Land off Kemp Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HE
Received 21 Sept 19992 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1XA
Received 29 Sept 200932 BOWDITCH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2QF
Received 12 Oct 2020Adj. The White House Southeau Bank Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 9 Apr 1998Land off: Worlds End Road Tydd St Mary PE13 5QN
Received 27 Sept 2019Land South off Holbeach Road Spalding PE12 6JP
Received 28 Apr 2020Records 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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