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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37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at A16 A151 Junction (North East Quadrant) Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 16 Jan 200624 West End Holbeach
Received 25 Apr 2003The Firs, Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Aug 1997The Bull Hotel Land adjacent Bull Lane and fronting the Recreation Ground Long Sutton
Received 11 Apr 200511 London Road Long Sutton Lincolnshire PE12 9EA
Received 20 Feb 2015Highfield Farm Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Dec 1995Parish of Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Sept 200072 Station Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DB
Received 19 Aug 202072 SURFLEET ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XY
Received 11 Feb 2026Dalehead Foods The Meat Plant Fulney Lane North Spalding Lincs PE12 6EZ
Received 23 Nov 2009Land Adj. Tidswell Bungalow Burr Lane Spalding PE12 6AZ
Received 25 Jun 2020Land adj. Arch House Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 23 Mar 200121 High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PE
Received 6 Dec 2004Northfields Old Fendyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 9 Dec 2013McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AF
Received 11 Jul 2011Church Cottage Church Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jul 1994MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 1 Nov 2021Leadenhall Farm Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 1996THE ANCHORAGE CHURCHGATE GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BZ
Received 4 Jun 2018Hazelwood Lodge Hazelwood Lane Fleet Spalding
Received 2 Nov 1992221 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TJ
Received 16 Mar 2018Garnsgate Hall Lutton Garnsgate Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9JP
Received 5 Jul 201311 Chapel Street Crowland PE6 0AR
Received 18 Sept 2019Shooters Bar Market Place Spalding
Received 5 Dec 2007Records 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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