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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oldacres Mill High Street Spalding
Received 21 Feb 2003Land adjacent 120 122 Severn Road Spalding
Received 25 Feb 2005Parish of Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 199489 LITTLE LONDON SPALDING
Received 7 Mar 2018Anley House St Matthews Close Holbeach
Received 18 Jul 2002Plot 5 Drawdyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EP
Received 3 Jan 201934 Fen Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Apr 199432 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1PB
Received 23 Dec 1996Abbots Cottage High Street Donington
Received 30 Oct 2003Land off Whale Drove Whaplode Drove PE12 0UB
Received 22 Dec 2016Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 24 Mar 1999'Apple Crumble Castle' Quadring Road Gosberton PE11 4NB
Received 24 Feb 2009BANK HOUSE DEAR LOVE GATE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9WB
Received 5 Oct 201544 Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AB
Received 10 Sept 2009Horseshoe Bridge (over South Drove Drain) Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jan 2001WOODLAWNS 235 WESTHORPE ROAD GOSBERTON WESTHORPE SPALDING PE11 4EP
Received 14 Nov 2016Seagate Bungalow 3 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 23 Aug 20048 High Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9DB
Received 14 Dec 2017Patchett Lodge Stukeley Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 11 Nov 1999Gimmels Gate Nurseries Gimmels Gate, Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 199659 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9JT
Received 9 May 2001Rear 16 Market Place Long Sutton
Received 11 Jun 2007Amberley 128 Boston Road North Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AD
Received 7 Feb 2006Pedersons Nursery The Paddock Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3BE
Received 26 Jun 2007Records 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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