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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenacres Fen Road Holbeach Lincs PE12 8QD
Received 25 Feb 20029 Balmoral Way Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE11 2RN
Received 12 Apr 2007128 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UE
Received 10 Oct 2006Lutton St Nicholas Primary School Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding PE12 9HN
Received 13 Feb 201420 Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6ND
Received 2 Dec 2013Rear: Willesby House Albion Street Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Oct 201523 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Sept 1998Station Road Long Sutton
Received 1 May 2003Land at Green Lane Holbech St Johns Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 31 Dec 2025Plot at South Eau Bank Gedney Hill
Received 3 Oct 2001Land at 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 28 Jun 2022Boston Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Dec 2000The Parish Church of St Mary Nicholas The Vista Spalding
Received 23 Jul 2008The Lawns London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 1993Bridge House & adj. land Luck's Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 28 May 1992150 PARK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QZ
Received 15 Nov 202347 Station Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BP
Received 16 Mar 2006309 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 May 2001Ravensgate Lodge Ravensgate Holbeach St Johns
Received 19 Mar 2007JEWSON LTD BOSTON ROAD SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LR
Received 5 Jul 2024EASTFIELD HOUSE 10 BECK BANK GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4JL
Received 17 May 201795 Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding LIncs PE11 3XR
Received 30 Mar 2004THE HAWTHORNS FOXES LOW ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PA
Received 19 Mar 2026Spalding Drove Spalding
Received 24 Aug 2005Records 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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