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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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The Butterfly and Wildlife Park Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9LE
Received 27 Oct 2016OS No 1616 Pasture Enclosure Mill Bank Holbeach Fen
Received 19 Nov 2004Port Sutton Bridge West Bank Sutton Bridge
Received 16 Sept 2004Harrow Farmhouse Littleworth Drove Deeping St. Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Jan 1992Lark Rise Queens Bank Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 1994Tydd St Mary Church of England Primary School Church Way Tydd St Mary
Received 16 Apr 2004Curlyworlds End, Red Cow Drove Moulton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Apr 1996Marsh Road/Low Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 11 Apr 2000Next to Ponderosa Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 1999The Ship Inn, Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 200040 Broadway Crowland PE6 0BH
Received 14 Jul 2004Land Off St Margarets Quadring Spalding PE11 4PR
Received 13 Oct 2021Pinchbeck Hall Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YA
Received 20 Feb 2015Holbeach Food Enterprise Zone Off A151 Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PY
Received 20 Dec 2019Rear of 10 Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BA
Received 25 Mar 201915A Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Oct 200540 West Parade Spalding Lincs PE11 1HD
Received 31 Oct 2006Co-op Store, Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jul 199643/45 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 1995A17 Moulton Marsh OS 3532 Spalding
Received 20 Jan 2003Crosskeys Swing Bridge Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 9 Oct 2025Ivanda Nursery Monks House Lane Spalding PE11 3LH
Received 3 Mar 20256 Oak Square Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0DX
Received 23 Apr 200911 Northgate West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TB
Received 2 Apr 2013Records 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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