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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holland Market Winfrey Avenue Spalding
Received 10 Aug 200439 Cley Hall Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 2000Plot 4 Lime Walk Long Sutton
Received 10 Jun 2002Plot at Lutton Gate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Oct 199540 Acre Farm Guanockgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LU
Received 13 Jul 2018Smithfield Scoldhall Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BJ
Received 23 Sept 20212 WARGATE WAY GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NH
Received 3 Aug 2020The White Hart Market Place Spalding
Received 18 Feb 2002Seagate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AD
Received 1 Apr 2003Majors Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding
Received 1 Jun 20068 BURMA AVENUE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TU
Received 27 Mar 2020Riverlodge B & B 5-6 London Road Spalding PE11 2TA
Received 22 Apr 202626 Roman Bank Spalding
Received 17 Dec 2007Off Carrington Drove Crowland
Received 25 Jun 2024Unit 32 Springfields Retail Outlet Camel Gate Spalding
Received 2 May 2008Rear of Bridge Inn Crowland Peterborough
Received 4 Dec 2000Park Lodge Park Road Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Mar 2000Land east of Lowery Close Long Sutton Spalding
Received 14 Oct 2026D R Waters and Son Farm Yard Clarks Hill Gedney
Received 18 Feb 200475 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JR
Received 28 Nov 2017FORMER E J LEFLEY SITE STATION STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LF
Received 1 Dec 2014172 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 8 Mar 20017 Edgefield Weston Spalding PE12 6RQ
Received 15 Mar 2018off Bull Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 2009Records 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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