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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
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chequers Chase Off Park Road Holbeach
Received 4 Feb 2004OAK TREE COTTAGE 14a STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BP
Received 18 Oct 202239 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1998Eastlands Land rear of 40-44 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 17 Dec 2015Horse & Jockey Site Northgate - Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 4 Dec 200317 Roman Terrace Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LE
Received 19 Nov 2001Land rear 102 and 105 London Road Spalding
Received 26 Mar 200727 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 19954 Park Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Dec 1998Highstock Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Dec 199079 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LF
Received 12 Aug 2014Land at Chase Farm Vicarage Lane Long Sutton
Received 16 Jun 200360 Double Street Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Mar 200414 Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Aug 2000RED LION HOTEL MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SU
Received 27 Jan 201672 Boston Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 22 Mar 1993Lansdowne Farm Chaintoft Lane Gosberton Spalding
Received 2 Jul 2001Adj. 149 Railway Lane (Plots J & K) Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Sept 1999Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Dec 2000San San Chinese Take-away 25 High Street Long Sutton
Received 22 Oct 2003Land between: 19 Weston Hills Road and The Gables Weston Hills Road, Low Fulney Spalding, Lincs
Received 21 Dec 2018Bank House Farm, Bensgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Apr 1997Hallgate Fleet
Received 9 Aug 2004Oakdene Hospital Drove Little Sutton Spalding PE12 9EL
Received 17 Jul 2024Records 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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