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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Sluice Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs PE12 8HF
Received 10 Jul 2009Ashleigh House 45 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TN
Received 14 Jul 2016Highview Pipwell Gate Saracen's Head Spalding
Received 17 Dec 1991Gedney Hill Golf Club West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NT
Received 29 Apr 201423 Woad Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LD
Received 9 Mar 2004Land north of "Annersfield" Back Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9LS
Received 28 Oct 199117 Stowgate Deeping St James Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Jun 199845 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HH
Received 20 Feb 2003Glen House Glenside South West Pinchbeck PE11 3SA
Received 29 Jan 2009NECAHEN LODGE 120 BELLS DROVE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0JG
Received 23 Jan 2014Land off Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 11 Feb 2004Plot adj. to 32 West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 2000HOLBEACH AND ELLOE HOSPITAL TRUST BOSTON ROAD NORTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8AQ
Received 11 May 2017Former Cinema Site London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Apr 2001Barling Deer Farm Bardling Drove Sutton St James Spalding
Received 14 Jan 199873A High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Apr 201132 Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 2000TARA HOUSE MAIN ROAD HOP POLE SPALDING PE11 3HJ
Received 20 Feb 201518 Abbots Drive Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BT
Received 1 Dec 2005West Bank Port Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Dec 2000Former : British Sugar Factory Site West Marsh Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 21 Aug 19969 Ambury Gardens Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0ET
Received 12 Jan 2007Moulton Chapel County Primary School Eaugate Road Moulton Eaugate Spalding PE12 0XJ
Received 8 Dec 2016Land adj. to 70 Little London Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Sept 1995Records 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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