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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fenberry Farm Peters Point Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UX
Received 6 Jun 200621 Millfield Gardens Crowland PE6 0HA
Received 12 May 20038 St Marys Gardens Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6XJ
Received 24 Sept 200435 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XU
Received 22 Jul 19974 Park Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7EE
Received 1 Sept 2016Former Gasworks Site Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AY
Received 14 Sept 2011The Poplars North Road Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0NS
Received 22 Jun 2022Side/rear: 60 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Feb 19944A Gimmels Gate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AS
Received 7 Aug 2025North of North End Cottage Little Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding
Received 11 Nov 199722 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 11 Dec 2020Unit 1 Market Place The White Hart Spalding
Received 26 Apr 20053 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DA
Received 21 Mar 2012Melbros Ltd 64-68 Surfleet Road Pinchbeck
Received 12 May 200833 Park Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DJ
Received 9 Aug 2004LORDS BARN COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY WISBECH PE13 5QH
Received 8 Aug 2025Rear of Bridge House Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding PE12 8AY
Received 11 Feb 2022Site of Leathercote House 11 Tower Lane Spalding PE11 2RG
Received 10 Apr 2018Elmhurst Dog 's Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0FA
Received 21 Nov 2002Cradge Bank Industrial Estate Cradge Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 1996Thomas Cowley Endowed Primary School Towndam Lane Donington
Received 25 Apr 200331 High Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs, PE12 9DB
Received 21 Oct 1992Land adjoining Horseplay Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 19 Mar 2004ROXANNE ROMAN BANK HOLBEACH BANK SPALDING PE12 8BX
Received 10 Aug 2015Records 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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