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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Silverhill Holiday Park Roman Bank Long Sutton
Received 9 Dec 2008Novo Cosmetics Church Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LL
Received 16 May 202426 Roman Bank Spalding
Received 9 Oct 200842-44 Railway Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 29 Jul 2002Land off Oakwood Glade Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 1993The Chestnuts Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DH
Received 29 Jun 2001Crowtree Farm Barns White Cross Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4AJ
Received 26 Apr 20191 Onslow Cottages Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PJ
Received 24 Jul 1998The Sessions House Sheep Market Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 20009 South Street Crowland PE6 0AH
Received 3 Nov 2004Mylands 22 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6UA
Received 13 Feb 2012Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs.
Received 16 Dec 1998The Bungalow South Drove Lucks Bridge Spalding, Lincs, PE11 3BD
Received 28 Oct 2002Myra Lodge Churchgate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs PE12 6TA
Received 10 Aug 2011Carric Lodge Churchgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 19982 St Johns Road Spalding PE11 1JA
Received 9 Jul 2018Capontoft Cheal Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JG
Received 19 Jun 201835 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs. PE11 3QQ
Received 31 Dec 20026 The Rookery Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Mar 20021 High Street Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6NN
Received 11 Jul 20082 THE ROOKERY LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LN
Received 27 Oct 202014 Low Road Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 1992Park Farm Park Lane Surfleet Spalding
Received 1 Mar 20014 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 2001Records 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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