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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
EAST ROAD TYDD GOTE PE13 5QF
Received 15 Jun 2018Vernatts Bungalow Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End
Received 10 Sept 200724 HALL PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SG
Received 27 Jan 2016Adj. 36 Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6HY
Received 23 Mar 20211 Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Nov 199926 Beccelm Drive Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AG
Received 22 May 2006The Red House High Street Gosberton
Received 27 Apr 2007Holbeach Womens Institute Hall Park Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 21 Sept 2012THE HAWTHORNS 2a BICKER ROAD DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XP
Received 19 Aug 2025The Hamber 5 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AF
Received 5 Mar 20027 Woad Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LD
Received 28 Apr 2010Laurel Lodge Farm Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding PE12 8JB
Received 2 Dec 2021Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 1997Chaintoft Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jan 1995Site adjacent The Warren Station Road Long Sutton
Received 23 May 2007Land off Town Dam Lane Donington
Received 6 Sept 2006FERNDALE HOUSE DOWSDALE BANK SHEPEAU STOW SPALDING PE12 0TX
Received 28 Jul 202016 Chapel Gate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0TR
Received 25 Sept 2012West of Woolram Wygate (Phase 2c Wygate Park Dev) Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jun 1993138 Hurn Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Feb 1999Nexus Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 10 Mar 20061 NEWLANDS ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DT
Received 30 Oct 2024HOLBEACH ST MARKS VILLAGE HALL ST MARKS ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8DZ
Received 10 Feb 2022Plot adj. 99 North Street Crowland Lincs PE6 0EF
Received 29 Mar 1999Records 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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