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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Fields Farm North Off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 8 Jan 2015Three Chestnuts Fen Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QD
Received 9 Jan 2025HOLLANDS 120 DOG DROVE NORTH HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SA
Received 11 May 2022Rear of 15, 17 & 19 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding
Received 29 Jan 202110 COUNTER DRAIN DROVE TONGUE END SPALDING PE11 3JJ
Received 13 Nov 20199 Washdyke Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4SL
Received 22 Mar 2000Red Lion Quarter Red Lion Street Spalding
Received 8 Feb 2011Culmac Battlesfield Lane North Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PF
Received 6 Mar 20032 St Marys Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DU
Received 12 Apr 2006Plot adj. 99 North Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EG
Received 14 Jul 1998Cowbit Playing Field Parkin Road Cowbit PE12 6AN
Received 19 Nov 2007Land at 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 2010West View Hockney Hole Lane Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TH
Received 23 Feb 20062 DANIELS REACH SPALDING PE11 3HG
Received 2 Sept 2014Former Finning Site Double Street Spalding
Received 22 Nov 2006Risegate Eau Road Gosberton Clough
Received 15 Nov 2001Land off Hillgate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Apr 2000Ringwood Lodge Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs PE12 9AU
Received 11 Jul 200334 Eastgate Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8NA
Received 13 Oct 2003Former South View Primary School Albion Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EM
Received 22 Jan 20191 Queens Bank Postland PE6 0JR
Received 4 Mar 2005Rock Construction Ltd Main Road Holbeach Drove
Received 25 Jun 2007Tavasz Vizslas 14 Roman Bank Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LG
Received 23 Sept 2015Commerce House 14-22 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 2 May 2001Records 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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