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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Beech House Broadgate Weston Hills
Received 17 Jun 2002Former Dunns Seeds Factory Gedney Road Long Sutton
Received 2 Sept 2002130 Station Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UJ
Received 15 Sept 2005Vernatts Bungalow Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End
Received 16 Mar 2007Land rear of 1 to 17 Coalbeach Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DF
Received 9 May 2013Land off Flintgate Sutton Bridge
Received 19 Sept 2003Fleet Road Industrial Estate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Sept 2003Land off Green Dyke Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0BF
Received 11 Oct 2018Woodview Main Road Hop Pole Deeping St Nicholas PE11 3HL
Received 8 Apr 20081 Farm Cottages Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs PE12 0AT
Received 15 Aug 201178 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HH
Received 19 Nov 2020Whiteacres Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 199225 Station Street Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Mar 2000Chapel House Mill Bank Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8QW
Received 24 Nov 2005J O Sims Ltd Pudding Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TJ
Received 6 Sept 2018MIDWAY 42 MILL MARSH ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LR
Received 16 Aug 2017Bridge Farm, New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1998Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland PE6 0TX
Received 10 Sept 2019Abbey Veterinary Centre 6 South Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AJ
Received 15 Sept 19982 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Feb 1992Eardley Grange Farm Cottage Speechley Drove Newborough
Received 17 Aug 2004Land off Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 2 Aug 2023Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 200333 NORTH ROAD GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NL
Received 22 Oct 2025Records 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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