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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Fields Farm Sutton Bridge
Received 19 Feb 2003Fenside Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding Lincs PE12 8RW
Received 30 May 2018Toll Bar House Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PJ
Received 13 Jul 2004Off Carrington Drove Crowland
Received 12 Jan 20152 HOBSONS GREEN SPALDING PE11 3GU
Received 26 Jun 2017Land west of Woolram Wygate (Plot 46 - Phase 3B) Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 1995Spalding Sugar Factory West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BG
Received 8 Nov 1994Parishes of Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Apr 1997Field View Lowgate Tydd St Mary
Received 14 Dec 20077 LAPWING GATE SPALDING PE11 7AB
Received 13 Aug 2025Land off Hallgate Lane Holbeach
Received 21 Jun 2002University of Lincoln Holbeach Campus National Centre For Food Manufacturing Park Road Holbeach PE12 7PT
Received 30 May 2024Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Nov 19959 Shivean Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PL
Received 12 Sept 2013DALE COTTAGE 9 MILL LANE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TP
Received 29 Sept 20202 GOXHILL AVENUE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4SZ
Received 13 Nov 2023Walnuts 23 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4TD
Received 6 Oct 2021Plot 2 Little London Spalding
Received 1 Nov 1995Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding
Received 16 Jul 2001Barn Lodge Hereward Way Crowland PE6 0BL
Received 25 Mar 20246 Edward Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1NP
Received 18 Feb 2004Land adjacent 12 Station Street Donington
Received 29 Jun 2006The Chase Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn
Received 8 Oct 2003Land adjacent 22 Bear Lane Pinchbeck PE11 3XA
Received 6 Dec 2004Records 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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