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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Main Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Oct 1997Bank House Dowsdale Bank Crowland Spalding PE6 0NF
Received 17 Jul 202670 Town Drove Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Apr 1998BROOKFIELD 88 GEDNEY ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9JU
Received 22 Mar 20222 BELLFIELD CLOSE SPALDING PE11 1JG
Received 27 Sept 2016land off New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 31 Jan 20018 Orchard Way Stonegate Cowbit PE12 6XA
Received 4 Jul 2005South Holland Post 16 Centre Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PN
Received 22 Oct 2019Dial Hall Station Street Donington
Received 30 Aug 20013 Blue Gowt Drove Pinchbeck
Received 23 Jul 2004The Walnuts 23 Quadring Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TD
Received 6 Aug 2001Waterside Cottage Tydd Road West Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs PE11 3PZ
Received 1 Jun 1999St Mary's Churchyard Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Dec 2016Deeping Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3BW
Received 5 Oct 2010Rear of The Mill, High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Nov 199722 Spring Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 2XN
Received 25 Jan 2012Fenwinds Damgate Holbeach Spalding
Received 16 Apr 1992Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Oct 1992Wharf Street - The Quay (Rear of the Bridge Hotel) Sutton Bridge
Received 6 Oct 2004Garthside Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8JJ
Received 28 Jun 2010High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 2000Land off Centenary Way Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Apr 2012Holding 30 Grange Road Wingland Terrington St Clements PE34 4HQ
Received 12 Dec 20113 Ladywood Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2DA
Received 19 Dec 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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